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Santa Rosa Island Fire initially started 4:19 p.m. May 15 on South side of Santa Rosa Island, Between Ford Point and South Point in Santa Barbara County, California. It has burned 18,379 acres after ...

A plane crashed at Sonoma Valley Airport late Wednesday afternoon, May 27, injuring two people, officials said. At 4:19 p.m., ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

The largest wildfire ever recorded on the Channel Islands scorched over a third of Santa Rosa Island. But in a rare piece of good news, many of the island's iconic Torrey pines survived. According to ...

Top Stories from May 26, 2026 SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Lightning from Memorial Day storms is believed to be ...

More than a week after a series of large wildfires broke out across Southern California and burned nearly 23,000 acres of ...

Containment of the Sandy Fire reached 75% on May 25 and stayed at nearly 2,200 acres as the day before. The fire fight of the Simi Valley blaze that kicked off amid dry, windy conditions a week ago on ...

The Sandy Fire in Simi Valley is 75% contained, while the remote Santa Rosa Island Fire off Ventura and part of the Channel ...

Firefighting crews continue to surround the blaze burning on Santa Rosa Island, with containment hitting 87% as Sunday evening. Holding at 18,379 acres, ...

The environment is now home to animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth, earning its nickname “Galapagos of North America.” A human-caused wildfire now threatens those unique animals and plants ...