Firefighting crews took advantage of calmer weather Sunday to increase containment of a small wildfire in Oakland, California ...

Amid explosions and darkened skies, the crew at Mountain High ski resort jumped into action, firing up a hundred snow cannons ...

One person has been detained after a fight reportedly broke out in Woodbine on Saturday afternoon. According to police, ...

More than 15 million people are under fire weather alerts in California -- from Redding to Sacramento to San Francisco to ...

About 13,000 customers in Northern California woke up without electricity Friday after Pacific Gas and Electric shut off ...

More than 27,000 customers across California have already had their power cut due to increased wildfire risks, and many more ...

California’s Park Fire ... that day were well above 100 degrees and it was windy — “red flag” conditions ripe for fire. The blaze moved at a breakneck pace. In just 48 hours, the Park ...

The Maui wildfire that devastated an entire coastal town and killed more than 100 people last year was caused by the "re-energization" of broken power lines that ignited unmaintained vegetation ...

Climate change is producing conditions that make wildfires more severe and the wildfire season longer, says Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis at Pomona College in California and ...

to create conditions for the rapid fire spread," according to a statement late Monday from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. The risk of wildfires increased ...

Wildfires in California have burned more than 1 million acres this year in a significant increase from last year's figure as the state enters one of the most dangerous times of the year for fires ...