Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Thursday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic a day earlier.

But for the 4,700 inmates at the facilities in the Castaic jail complex — all of ... with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, urged officials to move people immediately.

CASTAIC, Calif. -- Evacuation orders were lifted ... briefly triggering more evacuations. Southern California is under a red flag warning for critical fire risk through Friday.

Two children died after a hillside collapsed near a campground west of Shasta Dam in Northern California, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office said. Authorities, in a press release said, that ...