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Firefighters are on the scene of a half-acre vegetation fire that is threatening a nearby structure in the 2000 block of ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 10:09 a.m. in San Bernardino County. Wagon Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

Initial location: Santa Cruz County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 11:37 a.m. in Santa Cruz County. Hermon Fire ...

CAL FIRE CZU says that multiple resources are responding to a vegetation fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Currently, the ...

As wildfires become a more frequent and destructive part of life in California, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden offers science-based, community-centered ...

With the peak of wildfire season nearing, the California Fire Foundation (CFF) and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) are announcing the return of its annual Wildfire Safety and Preparedness ...

The Fire Department has transitioned to the Santa Barbara County Regional Fire Communications Center, a collaborative move with other county fire departments to enhance emergency response and to ...

For the third week in a row, Noozhawk’s readership was dominated by last month’s deadly head-on collision on Highway 1 south of Lompoc. It’s not hard to ...

Cannabis is serving as the modern day "canary in the coal mine" in terms of exposing the dirty truth of large-scale ...