California wildfires have become particularly devastating in recent decades, but their origins vary. By Orlando Mayorquín Reporting from Los Angeles The Palisades fire, which killed 12 people and ...

Fires sparked by lightning strikes that hit California early Tuesday razed over 13,000 acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, officials said. By Yan Zhuang Thomas Fuller and Amy Graff Scores of ...

(AP) – Wildfires in California wine country and Central Oregon grew overnight, prompting hundreds of evacuations as firefighters worked Sunday to try to contain the blazes amid dry, hot weather. The ...

Of the dozens of wildfire-related bills that legislators were quick to introduce in the wake of the wildfires that ravaged greater Los Angeles in January, roughly half of the ones tracked by Southern ...

The South Sierra Miwuk Nation was expelled from the lands 175 years ago.

In a state known for both "boring" and "scary" weather- as well as frequent natural disasters - California lived up to its reputation on Thursday, featuring a cornucopia of weather and disaster ...