More than half of the California National Guard’s firefighting teams were put under federal command, with no way to recall them.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has been steadily adding more personnel in recent years and now employs more than 12,500 people with a goal to increase staffing to 14,500 ...

The Eaton and Palisades fires in January caused an unprecedented level of destruction, killing at least 30 people, destroying ...

Highly trained K-9s can sniff out the smallest traces of accelerants as fire danger rises ahead of the Fourth of July holiday ...

A warehouse storing fireworks caught fire and exploded Tuesday, sending a fireball into the air and causing pyrotechnics to ...

The fire sparked in the Los Padres National Forest in San Luis Obispo County and was growing exponentially, officials warned.

The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in ...

California's Madre Fire sparked in the late evening of July 3 but has since grown to the largest in the state this year by the Fourth.

The Madre fire burning in San Luis Obispo County has grown to become the largest wildfire California has seen this year. It ...

About 101,500 new housing units were permitted statewide last year, a 9% drop from the previous year and the state’s lowest ...