Austin plans to greatly expand the amount of land, and therefore homes, considered at risk of wildfire damage. City Council members are scheduled to discuss updating rules surrounding Austin’s WUI, or ...

As a late-winter storm brings rain to Southern California, evacuation warnings have been issued in recent wildfire burn areas.

A new wildfire was reported today at 12:20 p.m. in Los Angeles County. Test Fire has been burning on federal land managed by ...

A group of citizens who have been working on the long-held dream of incorporating North Lake Tahoe held its first public meeting. If the process is successful, they hope to bring it to voters in the ...

Austin ranks fifth in the nation on a list of cities with the highest number of homes at risk of being damaged by wildfires. The four cities that rank above Austin are all in California ... and human ...

California's bird diversity and accessibility of parks and other public spaces make the state second best in the U.S. for birdwatching.

WHAT: Prescribed pile burning of 1-10 treated acres of slash from felled dead trees and brush. WHEN: March 12. Additional ...

In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers are seeking a halt to the plan to kill 450,000 barred owls along the West Coast.

California braced for the arrival of a massive storm on Wednesday, evacuating residents in areas at risk of mudslides and ...

The corruption of the US Forest Service is manifest nationwide, not just in the West. Numerous huge desecrations, such as at ...

Cities with the most hazardous acres of very high fire hazard include Moorpark, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks, and the "very high" hazard acreage in Ojai more than tripled. Unincorporated land in ...

The new fire hazard severity zone maps issued by Cal Fire this week are part of a two-month statewide rollout.