Despite a five-fold increase in state-designated danger zones, private carriers use their own risk templates for determining ...

CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps. Different colors come with different rules.

One in eight Californians now lives in areas susceptible to the kind of damage brought by January's Los Angeles wildfires.

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

LOS ANGELES, CA – Dr. Sion Roy has launched his campaign for California State Senate in District 24 ... in launching Santa Monica College’s new Malibu campus. A longtime advocate for K ...

New maps show that 68% more acres in Riverside and San Bernardino counties face a ‘very high’ risk of wildfire.

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced a settlement with developer Baldwin & Sons of a lawsuit filed in 2020 by ...

Top cabinet officials were in the hot seat after a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat that revealed sensitive ...

California is requiring two West Valley communities to build thousands of homes, while the state is ringing alarm bells over ...

This week, state fire officials released updated maps denoting fire hazard across Southern California. They say these ...