A central California county executive has pledged immediate changes after a news report revealed that vulnerable children removed from their families were living in deplorable conditions inside an office building.

A crew of roughly 1,500 firefighters have so far steered the wildfire away from the Reagan ranch, where the former US President Ronald Reagan hosted many world leaders

A Cessna aiplane crashes in California, killing at least 2 and injuring 2 others.

The company that operates the pipeline that spilled an estimated 3,000 barrels of oil into the Pacific Ocean off California has an 800-page manual on handling an oil spill - but it is unclear whether its employees followed those procedures.

Democratic members of Congress from California seized on the oil spill off the state's coast to promote federal legislation to ban all offshore oil drilling, as investigators searched for what caused the pipeline to burst.

A major oil spill off the coast of Orange County, Southern California, on Saturday prompted coastal closures and emergency responses.

Aerial footage shows the town of Greenville, California, completely burned to the ground almost two months after the Dixie Fire tore through the area.

California's Caldor fire moved closer to more heavily populated areas in the northern part of the state on Sunday, leading to more evacuation orders and warnings as well as road closures, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.

An army of firefighters worked to try to keep a huge wildfire from pushing toward Lake Tahoe.

Northern California wildfires that incinerated two mountain communities continued marching through the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday while a utility purposely blacked out as many as 51,000 customers to prevent new blazes.