In mid-October, three weeks before a disaster struck the heart of Ventura County with the speed of a roaring wind, a town ...

CBS News California takes a closer look at the drug component of the high-profile Proposition 36 to fact-check claims about ...

One person has died and four people have developed a potentially life-threatening kidney disease complication as part of the ...

Firefighters grappling with a blaze that has destroyed at least 130 homes in California said Friday they had made progress in ...

In our news wrap Friday, firefighters in California are making progress extinguishing a wildfire that has destroyed some 130 ...

Julia Brownley won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California on Thursday ... Santa Paula, Thousand Oaks and Moorpark. She defeated Republican Michael Koslow. The Associated Press ...

The Mountain Fire raging in Ventura County has destroyed at least 132 homes and damaged 88 so far — and is threatening 3,500 more homes, fire officials announced Thursday night. The fire, which began ...

One of several homes that have burned as a result of the 8,885-acre Mountain Fire that has spread from Balcom Canyon to ...

A brush fire originating in Moorpark, California exploded into the over-10,000 acre Mountain Fire on Wednesday, prompting evacuations in affected areas and destroying properties in western Camarillo, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Residents of highly populated areas in California are being urged to exercise caution around fire sources as several factors combine to dramatically increase the risk of blazes ...

A resident of a Thousand Oaks nursing home has been arrested on suspicion of killing his roommate, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded at 4:40 a.m. Friday to a call from ...