Lightning lit up the skies Wednesday night throughout the Bay Area, and firefighters in Brentwood said one such strike caused a house fire when the electricity hit a weather vane on top of the roof.

Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud describes what he saw in the days and weeks after the CZU Lightning Complex fire ignited in 2020 and the resilience of Santa Cruz Mountains communities in the ...

When lightning strikes are abundant, so are wildfires — some in remote places across the state. Scientists warn there may be more in the future.

WALDMAN LOOKS BACK ON THE AUGUST COMPLEX. AUGUST 2020. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEAT WAVE ON THE 17TH. A STARTLINGLY POWER LIGHTNING STORM STRIKES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. DOZENS OF ...

A wave of lightning-sparked wildfires burned across the Sierra Nevada foothills of Central California on Wednesday, torching dry hillsides and threatening historic Gold Rush-era towns as fire crews ...

The 2020 Labor Day Fires forever changed the landscape of several Oregon communities and the beloved wilderness surrounding ...

Cal Fire said the region experienced 173 lightning strikes within a 24 hour period, five of which were confirmed within the ...

So far this year, nearly two dozen large wildfires have charred roughly 218,000 acres in Colorado, mostly on the Western ...

One person was found dead in the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed Friday afternoon northeast of Mount Hamilton, Cal ...

A wave of lightning-sparked wildfires burned across the Sierra Nevada foothills of Central California on Wednesday, torching dry hillsides and threatening historic Gold Rush-era towns as fire crews ...