Hundreds of people have been ordered to evacuate and part of Highway 1 in Northern California has been closed due to a major fire at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants

The fire that started Thursday at the Vistra Energy battery plant in Moss Landing, roughly 80 miles (about 130 kilometers) south of San Francisco, led to 1,700 people evacuating, closed part of Highway 1 and generated huge flames and significant amounts of smoke. The cause is under investigation.

A 3.7-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The about 5-mile deep quake hit about three miles northwest from the San Francisco Zoo, at 7:02 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, according to the USGS.

On Monday at 12:24 p.m. the NWS San Francisco CA issued a wind advisory valid from 7 p.m. until Wednesday 10 a.m. The advisory is for Marin Coastal Range, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Santa Cruz Mountains and Eastern Santa Clara Hills.

Strict New Year's resolutions don't often work, but a loose set of goals often do. Here are the things I can't wait to do in Northern California in 2025.

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

SAN JOSE — Hotel development nosedived in California and the Bay Area in 2024, fresh evidence the statewide lodging market still suffers from an array of post-coronavirus economic maladies, a new report shows.

California filed a class action lawsuit against representatives Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson over a congressional vote for military aid to Israel.

Frank Peter Molinari Giorgi Jr., 36, of San Francisco, California, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder.

As south California burns, northern Californians are grappling with a surging crime that has residents in one small city fearing for the “safety of their community.” The once-quiet city of Vallejo, about 30 miles outside of San Francisco,

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows. The Eaton and Palisades fires that erupted