His hillside home smoldered but a handful of memories were spared. As Shane Clark assessed his newly incinerated Bell Canyon property on Saturday, Nov. 10 – one of more than a dozen houses leveled in his community by the aggressive, wind-fueled Woolsey fire – four pieces of paper offered solace. Thoughtful firefighters snagged many of…

BUTTE COUNTY — With 42 people dead, the Camp Fire roaring through Butte County has officially surpassed a grim marker by becoming the single most deadly and destructive fire in California’s history. The number of people who have perished in the fire, current as of Monday night, is almost certain to rise as rescue and…

State regulators and outside experts are tamping down concerns from advocacy groups about the Woolsey fire, which burned part of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear cleanup site, saying it likely posed no risk to the public beyond what is normal for wildfire smoke. The state Department of…

A bicyclist died in a hospital on Sunday, Nov. 11, several days after he was struck from behind by a sedan in Long Beach. The man was biking westbound in the third lane of Spring Street on Wednesday, Nov. 7, when he was rear ended near the 605 freeway by a driver in a 2007 Honda…

By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press MONTCLAIR  — A second high school coach of the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar recalled him on Sunday as volatile and intimidating, and said that repeated complaints to school administrators about his behavior failed to prompt any discipline. Evie Cluke coached Ian David Long…

Two Jewish camps in the Malibu hills have been charred by the Woolsey fire as it churned through buildings at Camp Hess Kramer and Camp Hilltop. “Those of us who love the Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps are heartbroken by the likely loss of at least some structures due to the Woolsey fire,” read a letter…

When the Camp fire swept into this community Thursday, Shane Bender watched as the air filled with acrid smoke and glowing embers rained down on the rooftops of nearby houses. Within minutes, dozens of men, women and children — some of them screaming and crying — were streaming down a two-lane…