Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and ...

New hazard designations increase the number of homes that must comply with wildfire building codes during reconstruction.

Consistent with California Government Code Section 51178, the state fire marshal is responsible for identifying areas throughout the state as Moderate, ...

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

Do you live in a high fire hazard zone? CalFire has released updated fire hazard maps for Santa Barbara County and the rest ...

In summary CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps. Different colors come with different rules. New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County. Smears of burnt ...

When en route to beautiful beaches in Northern California, the state’s most underrated scenic national park, or exploring ...

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who ...

That has been the Morro Bay way for several years now, thanks to a weekend-long lark that is piled high with offbeat hat, ...

Under the Trump administration, LGBTQ+ couples may face new challenges that require a return to some of those same ...

Working on it, it was just a bunch of us nerds. It felt like working in our garage. It was not really fancy and a small team, ...

“Mexico is not that much different from many other places in the world,” says Jack Ezon, founder of New York City-based ...