A recent executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to ramp up fire safety in urban areas as new maps released by ...

A severe storm making its way into Southern California has triggered concerns of mud and debris flows in areas hit by the ...

In some areas, hazards have surged. Buildings in the highest hazard zones will be subject to the strictest fire-resiliency ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck off the Northern California coast after midnight on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Several smaller quakes followed.

A new wildfire was reported today at 5:56 p.m. in Los Angeles County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains ...

Meanwhile, Southern California water reservoirs have never had more water stored in their system. Fire hydrants ran dry, not because of a lack of planning but because the demand for water as the ...

Heavy metals detected in the soil have also created health implications for Monterey County’s agriculture industry, and the ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in jurisdictions where the state will apply stricter fire-safety building requirements.

The Chico Fire Department put out 40 homeless campfires in 2024, and Tom Van Overbeek says he hopes that number will go down with this emergency authorization now in place.

A major atmospheric river storm is barreling toward California, raising the specter of damaging landslides and flooding across much of the Southland.