The planes went down around 12:20 p.m. in the Lancaster, California area, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department ...

Sheriff Chitwood is turning heads for his approach of putting students’ — and their parents’ — names, mugshots and “perp walk videos” on social media for all to bear witness.

Could we lose everything?” one under-insured resident wondered as a trio of blazes roared across Southern California.

Robert Hernandez, 38, a Cal Fire fire apparatus engineer, was arrested and charged with six felonies, including arson during ...

The chief says firefighters have a “tough road ahead.” All who were injured were members of two hand crews that had been ...

Assisted by favorable weather conditions, firefighters continue to increase containment of three major Southern California ...

A driver struck a horse early Sunday on the 15 Freeway in Norco, according to a Riverside County fire official. It was ...

A NASA astronaut joined sister station KCRA 3 live from the International Space Station to talk about her mission as she gets ...

Large, explosive and destructive fires have torn through parts of California this year well before the state’s most extreme ...

More than 6,000 wildfires have scorched nearly 1 million acres – very close to the average of about 950,000 acres, according ...

The region is unusually prone to natural disasters—and unusually unprepared for them. A heat wave struck Southern California earlier this month. Soon after, large swaths of the region began to burn.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection employee was arrested Friday on suspicion he ...