Pre-evacuations and evacuations for the Meridian Fire have been lifted, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

Parts of the city had been urged to evacuate as a powerful system brought rain and snow up and down the state.

The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations focused on fire safety. While the new regulations may eventually lower insurance premiums for some homeowners ...

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 ...

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

Despite an industry-wide slump, Simi Valley continues to assert its reputation as a top SoCal film production destination with the number of shooting days on the rise in recent years. At the Feb. 24 ...

In the wake of devastating fires that have threatened the region in recent years, Moorpark, Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks have teamed up to finalize a comprehensive emergency evacuation awareness plan ...

The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews worked overnight to beat back flames in the foothills above east San Jose. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) New maps ...