The Ranch fire was reported just after 2:30 p.m. near Bowen Ranch Road and Coxey Truck Trail, according to Cal Fire.

Ranch is California’s second-largest wildfire since January, when fires burned about 50,000 acres in Los Angeles County.

Reporters and photographers from the USA TODAY NETWORK-California will cover the "No Kings Day" protests throughout the state all day on June 14.

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District’s career technical education program is set to receive a major lift — an airlift, ...

Southern California Edison is ready with power outage maps if high winds materialize. Some areas are already without power.

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For a while, it looked like transportation officials were tantalizingly close to a dream that Bay Area commuters have held for decades: For BART to burrow beneath Silicon Valley and send trains ...

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The glassware section alone is a museum of American drinking habits, from novelty shot glasses proclaiming “What Happens in Vegas” to elegant crystal that somehow found its way here after Grandma’s ...

The developer is using the state density bonus law to get an additional 10 residences by reserving 11% of its base dwellings ...

For the second year in a row, California is on track to break records for valley fever cases. Here's how you can avoid the disease.