When Google bought Waze for $1.31 billion in 2013, everybody believed it was a matter of time before the app was axed. This approach would have made sense, especially because Google Maps was already ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection began rolling out a long-awaited update to its fire hazard severity zones Monday, which is set to more than double the number of acres in ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection this week released new fire hazard severity zone maps for dozens of inland Northern California cities and towns — the first updates to maps ...

New maps issued by state fire officials show several Bay Area cities with striking increases in areas deemed at high and very high likelihood of wildfire, raising the specter of residents losing homes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection battle the Sugar fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex ...