A wildfire in a wilderness area on the Central California coast grew to more than 70,800 acres Friday as the fire-prone state ...

Read the latest on the West Coast wildfires. CORRECTION (Sept. 15, 2020, 10:32 a.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated the location of the Creek Fire. It's in California, not Oregon.

The West and California have had a ridge of high pressure parked over them since early ... The Weather Prediction Center map says there’s a 33% to 40% chance temperatures in this area will be ...