Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fire hazard severity zones. New maps for Southern ...

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California joins states like Maryland and New Hampshire, where households with high incomes can still be middle class.

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The next phase of updated California Fire Hazard Severity Zones is set to be released Monday by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and Cal Fire. New maps rating the likelihood and severity of ...

Residents can track localized pollution, including particles from the wildfires that tore across Los Angeles in January, ...

After months of consideration, the Clovis City Council has approved the first council districts in the city’s history.

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Cities with the most hazardous acres of very high fire hazard include Moorpark, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks, and the "very high" hazard acreage in Ojai more than tripled. Unincorporated land in ...

The speed is more than enough to put human life and infrastructure at risk,” Alexander Handwerger, a landslide scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said.