When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...

California has faced budget crises before, but this could be the perfect storm of a chronically unbalanced budget made ...

Chico Fire Chief Steve Standridge says he will take the experience learned by his staff who traveled to Southern California ...

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The Trump administration’s plan to implement a sweeping freeze of federal aid sparked immediate confusion, uncertainty and ...

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

California officials refute President Trump's social media claim that the U.S. military entered the state and "turned on the ...

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California's longtime water war is now getting new national attention. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this ...

The district attorneys in several Southern California counties are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to expand his emergency declaration against price gouging in the wake of the Palisades and Eaton Fires.

The group of four firefighters — which included staff from Selkirk Fire Rescue & EMS and Northside Fire District — was part ...