It has burned 18,379 acres after being active for 12 days. As of Wednesday evening, 97% of the fire was brought under containment. The cause of this fire is attributed to human activity, although the ...

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.

Authorities were investigating the case, though officials described the blaze as "human-caused." ...

Massive California Wildfire Scorches Nearly a Third of Wildlife-Rich Island ...

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

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 ...

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 fire hasn't moved out of this footprint in well over 48 hours, which is a really good sign,” said Mike Theune, a spokesperson for the National Park Service.

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 ...

Firefighters continued to increase their control of the Sandy Fire that ignited May 18 in the Simi Valley hills. As of May 23, 61% of a fire that burned nearly 2,200 acres was contained, up from 40% a ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says that the human-caused fire was possibly started by flares from a stranded boater, who was rescued ...