The Pickett Fire is one of many racing through California, Washington and Oregon amid a heat wave gripping the West.

The National Weather Service warned beachgoers of choppy seas, gusty, erratic winds and the potential for cloud-to-sea lightning.

Clean-energy projects have new deadlines for federal tax credits and limits on foreign parts, taking aim at California’s climate agenda.

Multiple wildfires continue to burn across California, with some still at zero containment and posing growing threats.

Two of the three largest fires in state history are burning in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than 14,000 firefighters are battling those fires and about two dozen others around California.

The winds fueling fires in Southern California are beginning to relax, but the forecast calls for their return next week.

A battalion chief from Kern County involved in the Canyon fire operations was seriously injured when his truck rolled over.

A 2022 law to speed up clean energy project approvals has become a poster child of California’s struggle to cut bureaucratic delays.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern California.