According to AccuWeather, a storm sliding south along the California coast from Friday to Sunday could bring some much-needed rainfall.

Years of rebuilding in Southern California will create a scarcity of construction workers and materials throughout the state.

Shelters from around the greater Bay Area are taking in cats and dogs that were previously housed in Los Angeles-area shelters in an effort to free up space for pets displaced or rescued from wildfires.

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

The blaze has burned just over 14,000 acres near Pasadena. It is 89% contained. This fire has burned 80 acres in San Diego County and is 30% contained. Jacey Fortin The Friars fire burned a few acres in San Diego’s Mission Valley neighborhood Tuesday afternoon,

Firefighters in Southern California are once again battling a wildfire, this time in Castaic in Los Angeles County, north of Los Angeles itself. Evacuation orders have been issued for the surrounding areas.

The visit came the day after a new ballot initiative asking voters whether the state should become an independent country was cleared by the California Secretary of State's office to begin gathering signatures. Could the Golden State just fly the coop, become its own nation and walk away from 175 years of union with the United States?

Amid the wildfires, a petition initially created a year ago to address crime in Vallejo has reignited recent support.

Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 92,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 89,000 are under evacuation warnings.

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California — and also for many realtors. High mortgage rates continued to make the cost of borrowing expensive, which

Experts told NBC News that Southern California and other vulnerable areas need a transformational shift in mindset away from heavy reliance on firefighters to control blazes.