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

Hundreds of firefighters are working to contain a fast-moving wildfire that erupted near California’s Central Coast on Wednesday, forcing evacuations in two counties. The Madre Fire broke out shortly after 1 p.

Video from the U.S. Forest Service Los Padres National Forest and CAL Fire shows the Madre Fire turning the sky orange across Southern California on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. The fire quickly spread, becoming the state's largest this year.

Seven people are missing after a warehouse holding fireworks caught fire and set off a series of massive explosions in Northern California late Tuesday.

Seven people are still "unaccounted for" in Yolo County's town of Esparto after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire, officials said.

Rescue crews were searching on Thursday for seven people still missing days after an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Northern California shook a tiny farming community and forced the cancellation of nearby July Fourth celebrations.

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Nine months after first proposing to increase the annual amount allocated to California's film and TV tax credit program, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed it into law.

"We can look forward to our members getting back to work where they live," the Entertainment Union Coalition says

A California court delivered a strong fine to Google over its "misuse" of Android users' data over cell connections.

Google has been ordered to pay $314.6 million to Android phone users in California for collecting data from idle phones.