A strict 'Zone 0' rule against landscaping is risky. Well-maintained and watered vegetation could prevent the spread of fires ...

LEWISBURG — People are invited to watch and even help at a privy dig in Union County. Robert Lee, a veteran of more than 400 archeological “privy digs,” returns for his third excavation for ...

Twenty-thousand years ago or so, a wounded male mammoth lay down in ancient California savannah and died ... now we can look at it in 3D on a map, and we can see distributions," says Gilbert.

it’s a specialized government aircraft ejecting millions of Mediterranean fruit flies over the Bay Area. According to an April 29 release from the California Department of Food and Agriculture ...

The hazardous areas, marked in an ominous bright red on Cal Fire's maps, saw the most growth in the Northern California counties of Mendocino, Amador, Lake, Mono and Lassen compared to the the ...

The last patches of unusually dry areas — remnants of drought ... However, drought maps also reported parts Southern California are in extreme drought, boosting fire risk this spring.

fire-safe building codes increased 76% in Southern California areas protected by local firefighters, new state hazard maps released Monday, March 24, show. The number in the highest tier — the ...

Click on the links to see the accompanying maps, which for this phase represent areas in Southern California.ImperialInyo Los AngelesMonoOrangeRiversideSan Bernardino San Diego The updated hazard ...

Two months after deadly wildfires razed thousands of homes in the Los Angeles area, Cal Fire has ... building construction. The maps for most of Southern California, as well as a large portion ...

Cal Fire has released fire hazard severity zone maps for Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. The fire hazard severity zone maps are like ...

further reinforcing the need for residents to take note if they live in or visit hazard areas. The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps that were published by the California Geological ...

(File photo courtesy of Cal Fire) Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate more than 2.3 million acres of local land in California as facing “high” or ...