More parts of Orange County are identified where residents might be required to start taking measures to protect their homes.

A total of $27.5 million for organizations that provide family planning, contraception, cancer screenings and sexually ...

For the first time ever, California fire officials have identified the City of Santa Maria as having the potential risk of a ...

More than 90% of the city of Poway is designated as a moderate, high or very high Fire Hazard Severity Zone, Cal Fire reported in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire agency ...

According to federal data analyzed from February 2024 to February 2025, Alaska led the country with a 3.93 percent drop in ...

Air-quality officials are advising people in several Southern California cities to keep their doors and windows closed amid ...

The blaze, which is being called the Silver Fire, was reported at around 2:10 p.m. on Sunday near Highway 6 and Silver Canyon ...

VIIRS/MODIS satellite hotspot data is updated daily in the morning with the red dots indicating which direction the fire is moving. The color of the dots shows how recent the data is (red is today, ...

The wildfire — which some agencies called the Laws Fire — was reported Sunday afternoon near the highway bridge over the ...

Evacuations for the Silver Fire can be found in the evacuation map below. Evacuation Order in place for an active wildfire in the area. An Evacuation Center has been established at the Bishop Senior ...

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