About 101,500 new housing units were permitted statewide last year, a 9% drop from the previous year and the state’s lowest ...

ESPARTO, Calif. (AP) — An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in northern California caused several fires, sending black smoke ...

The fire had reached 78 acres as of Tuesday night, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Esparto is in a rural area about 40 miles northwest of Sacramento.

Sonoma Valley Fire District completes final step in Kenwood Fire Protection District merger by welcoming new board of ...

More than 600,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest in California could re-open to industrial logging and road-building ...

More than 600,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest could re-open to industrial logging and road-building if the Trump ...