Deep within the Sonoran Desert near the Salton Sea and hours away from the bustling metropolitan areas of Southern California, awaits a notorious community known as Slab City. It's a place full of ...

Three wildfires that ignited amid unusually hot weather in Southern California ... the west end of the city of Big Bear Lake was evacuated. An official of the California Department of Forestry ...

Three major wildfires have burned for a week or more in Southern California, scorching more ... participating locations are in Cathedral City, Corona, Hemet, Indio, Moreno Valley and Riverside.

Southern California's mapping came out on Monday ... On a broader scale, the maps are to be informative for city and county future development plans and help strengthen fire safety policies.

The number of acres in the top two fire zones that must comply with stiffer, fire-safe building codes increased 76% in Southern California ... Area fire-hazard maps: Is your city among those ...