Random thoughts from a CalFire tour through the forbidden zone On Saturday, Jan. 25, I took a three-hour tour with Brent ...

The U.S. Forest Services typically hires thousands of firefighters every spring, but due to a new federal hiring freeze, ...

SCE concedes in the filing that a conductor failure occurred near the origin of the fire, causing damaged equipment to fall ...

On Wednesday the Department of Animal Care and Control  announced that the Castaic Animal Care Center (ACC)  has officially reopened  its doors to the community after a temporary closure due to the ...

A 31-year-old man who was struck and killed by a car as he was crossing the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway in Castaic on foot was identified Wednesday. Officers responded to a hit-and-run call ...

Thousands of farmworkers labored in fields in Ventura County, Calif. in late January in wildfire smoke. They have little to ...

Thursday, 10:07 p.m. PSTThe Hughes Fire reached full containment nine days after igniting near the community of Castaic.

Multiple law enforcement agencies from Kern County are in pursuit of a reported stolen vehicle Thursday afternoon. The California Highway Patrol said its ...

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

At least 29 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across ...

Round Rock firefighters are back in Texas after traveling to California to help battle wildfires devastating the state.

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and ...