The city of Oakland will lose 30% of its firefighting capacity in the next two weeks due to the city’s $129.8 million budget ...

The California insurance crisis laid bare by the Los Angeles fires was fueled by "regulatory failure," economist Nancy ...

and the lessons learned from the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm. "It came over the crest," Elizabeth Stage said on Monday. She has lived in the Oakland hills for 40 years, and remembers the Oakland ...

Elizabeth Stage, president of the Oakland Fire Safe Council, talks about the 1991 Oakland Firestorm/Tunnel Fire, in her home on Alvarado Road, above Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve, on Monday, Jan.

Oakland is no stranger to fire devastation itself. The Oakland firestorm of 1991 killed 25 people, injured 150 and destroyed more than 3,000 homes. Olyer said the 1991 fire fundamentally changed ...

Not since the Oakland Hills fire of 1991 that killed 25 people and destroyed ... communications and a coordinated response to the firestorm, and vegetation, overgrown without strict city ...

As part of the 25th anniversary of The Sims, the New York Times spoke to the original game's lead designer Will Wright, who ...

The Berkeley fire chief says the images we're seeing out of Southern California are a grim reminder of what can happen locally. Some areas like Oakland and Berkeley Hill have similar topography ...

Dennis Richmond, one of the most recognizable anchors in Bay Area news, has died at 81, according to his former station.