Thairie Ritchie, a well-known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

Fire victims’ experiences, and damning grand jury findings, depict a county government unprepared to meet the needs of ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 10:38 a.m. in Santa Cruz County. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

Santa Cruz County supervisors met to discuss potential toxin spread from the Moss Landing battery plant fire, with residents ...

Blueground US Inc. illegally jacked up rents for furnished apartments in Los Angeles — more than 50% in one example — after last month’s wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes, the city ...

Fortunately no one was hurt,” said Board Chair Felipe Hernandez. “But this event has left a lot of questions in the minds of ...

The wildfires in California were so severe, firefighters from all over the country poured in. Now some of the firefighters from Rio Rico are back and talking about their experiences.

Residents describe experiences of sore throats and other symptoms. The energy storage industry insists that this incident is ...

California State Parks plans to resume prescribed pile-burning in the northern portion of the Forest of Nisene Marks State ...

CalMatters reports on the alarming issue of home development in highly flammable areas in the state of California.

As FireAid kicks off, 19-year-old Lucy Heffernan visits the shell of her Altadena, LA, home, cataloguing what was lost to the wildfires.

It’s getting tougher for Californians to get and keep fire insurance, writes Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin, and it’s not just people living in fire-prone, forested areas like Bonny Doon and ...