The Madre Fire has grown to more than 70,000 acres in San Luis Obispo County.

The Madre Fire became California’s largest blaze so far this year, ripping through grasslands after breaking out Wednesday in ...

At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest.

The Madre Fire, now the largest wildfire in California this year, expanded to 79,630 acres by Saturday, July 5, prompting ...

Faced with abandonment from the state, rural residents built their own fire lines, shelters, and support systems.

Newsom, who has said the fires may go down as the costliest natural disaster the nation has ever seen, requested almost $40 billion in recovery funds from the federal government.

In our news wrap Sunday, the McKinney Fire in northern California forces thousands to flee their homes, at least seven deaths in Oregon are suspected caused by excessive heat, the death toll from ...