SACRAMENTO, Calif. — CalFire released a new map this week, expanding hazardous fire zones in Northern California. It's part of Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order after the Los Angeles fires.

Massive layoffs at the Department of the Interior included thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees.

Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every ...

The heaviest rain slammed into the region Thursday night into early Friday morning, triggering flash floods and mudslides ...

Water utilities in Altadena and Pacific Palisades are undertaking an arduous process of repressurizing their underground pipelines, testing for contaminants and attempting to flush them out.

Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate nearly two-and-a-half million acres of local ...

An FDNY officer who was told by her grandfather that “women shouldn’t be firefighters” is poised to become the highest-ranked ...

M y wife — as usual — understood the situation before I did. The night before, Monday, Jan. 6, we’d both been awoken by the ...

Cal Fire's new maps show Auburn increased its very high severity zone acreage to 800 this year compared to 326 acres a decade ...

The Whatcom County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan does include a section on wildland fire and the county adopted a wildland fire-specific action plan in November 2023. But Whatcom County is still ...

Rain on burned hillslopes can trigger dangerous floods and debris flows. Those debris flows can move with the speed of a ...

Noteworthy: Salazar scored eight goals in an 18-12 win over Godinez in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 5 girls water polo playoffs, and followed with three goals in a 7-5 victory over El Modena ...