A rush to fix Canada's housing shortage may placing some new homes at risk of damage by flood and fire, says a new report ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...

The Tunnel fire broke out in a wooded canyon just minutes away from UC Berkeley, where David Sapsis was working on his Ph.D.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will order state officials to advance implementation of a state rule aiming to make homes more ...

The governor called on the state Board of Forestry to enact regulations they were ordered to draft four years ago.

Newsom signed the order after returning from Washington, D.C., where he met with President Trump to discuss federal aid.

During cleanup and recovery from the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about ...

CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the ...

The pushback is coming from areas of the county with greater wildfire risks and potential evacuation problems.