The numbers are painful. Three Southern California wildfires had eaten up 117,546 acres by Friday afternoon, Sept. 20, ...

At a CalMatters event, California’s insurance commissioner says the changes he’s making will help homeowners and business ...

Rain began falling in some parts of Southern California Friday, prompting concern for mudflows on recent burn scar areas amid ...

In Southern California, two counties are sending crews to Orange County after eight firefighters there were injured in a ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has arrested one of its own employees who is suspected of starting ...

Robert Hernandez, a 38-year-old fire apparatus engineer with Cal Fire, the state’s main firefighting agency, was arrested on ...

Governor Green travels to California, Sylvia Luke to act as governor in his absence Hawaii Governor Josh Green, will travel ...

A Cal Fire firefighter was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of starting five separate wildfires in the state within the ...

Chase Hunter is the Alameda County reporter for the Bay Area News Group. Hunter grew up in the West Valley of Phoenix and moved to Sonoma County in 2021 where he reported for the Sonoma Index-Tribune ...

The five fires burned less than an acre of wildland combined because people acted quickly to put out the fires.

A Cal Fire firefighting engineer accused of sparking at least five fires in Northern California forest lands was arrested Friday by investigators.

Fire officials believe the fire apparatus engineer ignited the Alexander Fire on Aug. 15, the Windsor River Road Fire on Sept ...