The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...

In the wake of the fire at Moss Landing, the Morro Bay City Council took a step to push back on any plans to build a similar battery plant on its waterfront. The Morro Bay City Council voted ...

Reeling from destructive wildfires, including the deadliest in California history, state lawmakers in 2020 passed new requirements for clearing combustible materials like dead plants and wooden ... a ...

“This was an exceptionally well-predicted event from a meteorological and fire-predictive services perspective,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los ...

An evacuation order has been lifted after a lithium-ion battery fire broke out at a power plant facility in Central California Thursday night, officials said Friday. “In an abundance of caution ...

A fire at Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey Bay, California, triggered evacuation orders and the closure of a portion of the state’s Highway 1 on Thursday night, as authorities tried to ...

The California Highway Patrol also closed Highway 1 around the plant. Assemblymember Dawn Addis, a Democrat representing the area, said in a social media post on Thursday that she was “deeply ...

According to the update, the seven schools located in evacuation zones have been temporarily relocated to alternative sites for the remainder of the week. Additionally, the district has stated ...

A group of UCLA climate scientists said in an analysis this week that if you break down the reasons behind the extreme dryness of vegetation in Southern California when the fires started ...

Last Tuesday morning, I saw a billow of smoke rise across the canyon. My husband quickly called the authorities, and we were told it was a 20-acre fire in the Palisades. The fire wasn’t large ...