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After assessing the crawl space and size of the bear, wildlife officials said they determined tranquilizing the bear was not ...

Photos taken of the Hughes Fire around Castaic Lake, California captured the massive blaze and cloud of smoke visible from ...

Everly Smith, 6, and 4-year-old brother Caeden said goodbye to their father more than two weeks ago when he, alongside two other Loveland Fire Rescue Authority crew members, packed their things into a ...

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with ...

From practical items like clothing to sentimental keepsakes like journals, these are the belongings residents grabbed in the ...

California is considering a bill that would allow insurers and victims of climate-driven natural disasters to sue the oil ...

So far, many clues to the origins of the deadly Eaton fire, which started in the area just after 6 p.m. that evening and went on to kill 17 people, have pointed to the brushy hillside where a tangle ...

"The fire is growing with a moderate rate of spread and structures are threatened," Cal Fire said as it issued evacuation ...

We’d been through this a million times before,” Jackson Wootton, a CU Boulder student from California said. “All throughout ...

Approximately 3,000 people gathered for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ 11th annual OneLife LA on Saturday, moved to the ...