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

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

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

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building ...

County fire or sheriff's officials appear to have failed to set the alerts in motion, leaving many west Altadena residents to ...

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

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

A new study using the largest network of microphones to track birds in the United States is providing crucial insights for managing and restoring fire-prone forests across California's Sierra Nevada ...

Weeks after the federal agency froze hiring and training for thousands of federal firefighters at the order of the president, ...

Cal Fire released its new fire hazard severity maps, including for Sacramento, detailing which areas are at high risk of ...

On Tuesday night, as President Trump spun fantastical tales to Congress about the “hundreds of billions of dollars” Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has supposedly saved by firing ...

This article was first published by High Country News. Successfully fighting a wildfire requires more than people digging ...