California's Madre Fire sparked in the late evening of July 3 but has since grown to the largest in the state this year by ...

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

A map shows areas of California where high winds and dry thunderstorms may easily cause fires, and residents have been told ...

Hot weather and dry conditions have led to “elevated” wildfire threats across the state, the U.S. Drought Monitor said.

The California Farm Bureau says fears in the Central Valley have led to migrant farmworkers not showing up for work, which has virtually halted the area’s citrus harvest.

A.G. Wishon came to the Central Valley in the 1890s form Missouri by way of Spokane, Washington. He was an engineer, although not officially, because he never finished his degree. And he got a job ...

Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fire hazard severity zones. New maps for Southern California come out March 24.

Crews from Merced, Fresno, Clovis, Sanger, Tulare, Visalia, and other Central California communities are on the frontlines in Los Angeles, helping to fight one of the worst fire disasters the ...

California's Central Valley—one of the nation's most critical agricultural regions and home to over 1.3 million people—is prone to flooding. Mapping the extent of winter floods has been ...

A map of California is both beautiful and confounding. And that’s when we realized how challenging this would truly be: As soon as we introduced the project to the SFGATE newsroom — which has ...

Valley fever spiking across California's Central Valley. Valley fever is an infectious disease caused by the Coccidioides fungus, which grows in soil and dirt in parts of California.

California’s Central Valley has a population of 7.2 million, according to the 2020 census. That number drops to about 4.7 million if you exclude Sacramento, the liberal-haven state capital.