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

A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The Bay Area is under an air quality advisory through Thursday as smoke from wildfires near the California-Oregon border travels south. A map from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows ...

The map comes as California sees increasing frequency and severity of wildfires — four out of five of California’s most-destructive wildfires and nine of the 10 largest have occurred since ...

There were outages Wednesday across the Bay Area and Northern California; including Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra ... View PG&E outage map. As of 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, most of the Bay Area ...

Here are maps showing some of Northern California’s most populated areas within a tsunami hazard zone, ... The Bay Area native is a graduate of UC Berkeley and started at The Times in 2004.