Federal and state officials say the temporary sites for processing hazardous waste pose no threat, but residents are worried ...

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

Areas charred by last month's wildfires in Southern California now face a new threat from a powerful, but fast-moving Pacific ...

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 ...

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.

A 50-year-old speech therapist in Tuolumne County is accused of assaulting a 7-year-old child with autism in January.