Last month, nearly a dozen wildfires erupted across southern California, sending plumes of smoke and particulate matter into the air. Public health officials in Los Angeles issued a multiday air ...

For more than a decade, the United States dramatically reduced its national smog levels, but since 2015 smoke from ...

The question facing Ventura County is no longer whether we need more aerial firefighting capability — it is whether we are ...

After late-spring rain, and with an El Niño brewing, experts say the outlook for the summer is especially complicated.

Former SCNG housing writer Jeff Collins won the Kenneth R. Harney Award for consumer education, one of the association’s top ...

A Simi Valley family takes steps for a new chapter after being displaced from an apartment fire that broke out on April 18.

Sandy Fire initially started 10:50 a.m. May 18 on Off Sandy Ave, Simi Valley in Ventura County, California. It has burned 2,183 acres after being active for 10 days. The fire crew managed to contain ...

This story was originally published in the Thousand Oaks Acorn on May 22 and has been updated with additional reporting by ...

Aircraft made hundreds of trips to a local reservoir, filling tanks to fight the Sandy Fire. Here's who pays for the water.