The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fire hazard severity zones. New maps for Southern California come out March 24.

Crews from Merced, Fresno, Clovis, Sanger, Tulare, Visalia, and other Central California communities are on the frontlines in Los Angeles, helping to fight one of the worst fire disasters the ...

A map of California is both beautiful and confounding. And that’s when we realized how challenging this would truly be: As soon as we introduced the project to the SFGATE newsroom — which has ...

California's Central Valley—one of the nation's most critical agricultural regions and home to over 1.3 million people—is prone to flooding. Mapping the extent of winter floods has been ...

California Map Shows Where Land Is Sinking Fastest. Published Feb 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM EST. By . ... The fast-sinking land in the state's Central Valley (up to 8 inches per year) ...

California's first floodgate opens in Stockton 02:08. STOCKTON – A floodgate that will try to bring thousands of Central Valley homes out of a 100-year flood zone is now complete.