The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

The blaze is burning in a desolate area of San Luis Obispo County, but its smoke has spread to two nearby counties.

Seven people are missing after a huge explosion at a warehouse in Esparto, Calif., that sent bright fireworks across the area ...

California, gripped by a housing shortage, wants to build 2.5 million homes. But it's running out of safe places to put them.

The San Francisco-based company is known for staging large-scale fireworks displays across California and the U.S.

ESPARTO, Calif. (AP) — An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in northern California caused several fires, sending black smoke ...

Wildfires in California continued to rage on Wednesday, with the Juniper and Wolf fires affecting Riverside County. The Wolf ...

As destructive wildfires have ravaged California over the past decade, the insurance industry has dropped hundreds of ...

Cleanup crews contracted by the Army Corp of Engineers dumped asbestos-tainted wildfire debris in landfills that they shouldn ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 10:08 p.m. in Los Angeles County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private ...

Pushed by fast winds, a fire burned more than 3,000 acres within two hours Wednesday afternoon along the border between Santa ...