Cal Fire added more than 360,000 acres in coastal Northern California to its fire hazard zones where heightened fire safety regulations will apply. New Southern California maps come out March 24.

To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame length and ember-dispersion distances, terrain and weather patterns are ...

Nine people are competing to fill the vacancy created by Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who voters overwhelmingly recalled in ...

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm ... The primary audience for the maps are city and county governments, and especially permitting departments, which inform ...

Ahead of the special election, we sent out a form asking candidates a range of questions, from their age to how they'll ...

From video games to writing books to being a top writer at MotorTrend, William Irvin Lewis is just getting started.

Stephanie Hayden, founder of East Oakland Neighbors, created this map outlining the jurisdiction of ... with full-fledged California peace officers, that is not a city department and that is outside ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) recently released new fire hazard severity zone maps for ...

Researchers from EDF and the University of Texas at Austin took our data to the West Oakland Environmental ... traffic.These new maps reveal that air pollution also varies significantly within ...

Two mayoral candidates in the upcoming April 15 special election went toe-to-toe on the issues important to Oaklanders.