The fire has prompted evacuation orders, warnings, and highway closures in San Luis Obispo County around 100 miles north of ...

The Madre Fire in central California expanded to nearly 53,000 in one day, making it the largest wildfire this year in ...

Changing climate patterns and below average rainfall, when combined with extended periods of high winds, increase the risk of ...

The Madre fire burning in San Luis Obispo County has grown to become the largest wildfire California has seen this year. It ...

Southern California has experienced below-average precipitation this year, less than 70% of the typical average in most areas ...

ICE responded to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's call for federal immigration authorities to "go home," stating they will ...

The Madre Fire is the largest wildfire in California in 2025 — surpassing the Los Angeles-area fires that devastated parts of the region in January.

At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest.

State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in ...

The Madre Fire has more than doubled the size of California’s second-largest wildfire this year, as it races through the Los ...

Hundreds of firefighters are working to contain a fast-moving wildfire that erupted near California’s Central Coast on ...

Just after 10:30 a.m. on a cool, foggy January morning, smoke began rising from a ridge above Pacific Palisades — a quiet ...