The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's Department has struggled with a shortage of buses to transport inmates.

Coverage of when the Hughes fire exploded north of Castaic, the areas under evacuation orders and an extended red flag ...

A man was struck and killed by a vehicle on the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway in Castaic Tuesday evening. California ...

Firefighters are working to contain a new wildfire, dubbed the Hughes Fire, which exploded east of Lake Castaic in northern Los Angeles County on Wednesday. The fire had charred more than 3,400 acres ...

California Highway Patrol reopened the freeway ... Approximately 19,000 people in Castaic are under evacuation orders triggered by the Hughes Fire, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert ...

Photos taken of the Hughes Fire around Castaic Lake, California captured the massive blaze and cloud of smoke visible from Six Flags Magic Mountain.

Evacuations were ordered Wednesday for a brush fire that grew at an alarming rate in the hills near Castaic north of Los Angeles on a day of red flag warnings for parts of Southern California.

The Hughes Fire has now burned 8,096 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties since igniting late Wednesday morning near ...

The fire threat remains critical in Southern California, where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday ...

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a more than $2.5 billion package to help the Los Angeles area recover from its recent ...