Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bulldozer moves into position to cut firebreaks as a hand crew descends a hillside during the Canyon fire in Castaic on Aug. 8. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, records a video during an aerial tour of a wildfire risk reduction ...

LOS ANGELES — In a case that calls into question plant clearing techniques that have become fundamental to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, the San Diego ...

On Oct. 28, Cal Fire attempted to burn native Chaparral habitat on SFPUC land above State Route 92 near Ralston Avenue in Belmont. The burn was curtailed when Cal Fire could not get the shrub to ...

As the Los Angeles Fire Department and California State Parks face mounting scrutiny over their handling of a small brushfire that reignited into the deadly Palisades blaze, a newly released document ...

3:38 p.m. Nov. 25, 2025: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the Cal Fire program in dispute. It is the California Vegetation Treatment Program, not the Vegetation Management ...