As cooler, wetter weather helps southern and central California fire crews contain a handful of blazes burning in the region, ...

I’m hopeful,” a Morro Bay resident said. “We could have snuffed them all out, but, you know, I just don’t believe it.” ...

Highway 166, which links Highway 101 near Santa Maria with Highway 99 near Bakersfield, is being rebuilt along the Cuyama River at a cost that sometimes exceeds a million dollars a mile. [Adjusted for ...

Firefighters scrambled to control a fast-moving wildfire that erupted Thursday morning in hills along Interstate 5 in ...

The Gifford Fire is 73% contained as of Saturday morning, with acreage burned holding at 132,605 acres.

Crews reached 69% containment on the Gifford Fire Friday after two weeks of fighting the blaze in remote, rugged terrain. ...

Within hours of the Aug. 1 ignition, the Gifford Fire exploded as flames raced through tall, dry grasses and thick chaparral, blackening terrain on both ...

One-way traffic control across 2.2 miles of Highway 166, starting at 16 miles east of the US 101, has ended as of Friday, ...