Within two hours, major blazes broke out across the state as gusty winds and heatwave combined for dangerous outbreak.

Mayor Quinton Lucas said he has confidence in KCFD and KCPD after the U.S. Department of Justice concluded investigations ...

President Donald Trump headed to hurricane-battered North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, using the ...

Since the fires broke out Jan. 7, Trump has accused the state of sending too much water to the Pacific Ocean instead of south toward Los Angeles. But the federally managed Central Valley Project doesn ...

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The only thing that is certain right now is that California desperately needs aid, and even more so, needs its state and ...

The FBI said Friday that it arrested a Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.

Washington state woman Teresa Youngblut arrested by FBI for the fatal shooting of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland in ...

Advisers to California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, ...