Since 1983, thousands of car lovers have come from all over to the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association shows, never dreaming their antique collector’s items would be stolen.

The sun is setting at a construction site on "the ridge," as locals call it. Towering pine trees with their bark still black from wildfire are lit up in orange. And Chip Gorley and some buddies are about to crack open cans of IPA to celebrate some rare good news.

A 48-year-old San Jose man pleaded guilty this week to orchestrating a series of fires as part of a scheme to collect millions of dollars in damages, authorities said.

One person was killed and another hospitalized in critical condition Thursday after a crash involving a Tesla in Van Nuys.

The pilot of a single-engine plane died after crashing into a house in Upland Thursday morning, sparking a massive fire, officials said. The San Bernardino County Fire Department responded to the residence on West 15th Street where flames were seen shooting through the roof.

For many people trying to put their lives back together in the wake of California’s catastrophic wildfires, the process of rebuilding can feel like a second hardship — one not inflicted by nature, but rather, by the insurance company they thought would protect them.

Simmons Prepared Foods is recalling more than 2 million pounds of chicken products that may be contaminated with metal. The recall was announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to extend by two months the deadline to file claims against the company for damages suffered from a series of wildfires in California.

In 2018, a fire ripped through the town of Paradise, California, killing 85 people. It was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history.
Liabilities from wildfires started by its powerlines bankrupted Pacific Gas & Electric, which cut off power to nearly one million homes and businesses last month to prevent wind from triggering and fanning fires.

The engines, big and small, came from all over the country to fight the Kincade fire in the Sonoma county wine region of California. There were trucks from Nevada, South Dakota, Colorado — and from the wildfire protection unit of home insurer AIG.

A fresh wildfire engulfed a few homes and threatened others early Thursday in Southern California’s San Bernardino, officials said, stunning residents who awoke to rushed evacuation orders as the blaze raced from the hillsides into at least one neighborhood.

A fast-moving brush fire broke out Wednesday morning northwest of Los Angeles. The Easy Fire had burned about 1,300 acres, the Ventura County Fire Department said on Twitter. The fire was burning near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

The tens of thousands of California residents harmed by last year’s devastating wildfires are getting more time to file for compensation from the utility company blamed for the blazes.

Powerful new winds could bring more devastation to parts of California already ravaged by wildfires. Crews battling the massive Kincade Fire in Northern California’s wine country fear the wind could fan the flames.

Turbocharged by winds reaching hurricane force, wildfires whipped across Northern California on Monday, burning tens of thousands of acres, driving almost 200,000 people from their homes and seriously injuring a firefighter.