This is Santa Maria-style barbecue in its most authentic form, a cooking tradition indigenous to California’s Central Coast that bears little resemblance to its Southern counterparts.

According to Cal Fire the Madre Fire ignited in San Luis Obispo County due to unknown causes on July 2, in the afternoon. Burning 80,610 acres, the fire is the largest in California so far this year, ...

A small operation just miles from downtown Santa Maria became one of the firefight’s most important assets: the Santa Maria Air Tanker Base.

It took less than a day for a wildfire near New Cuyama to grow into California’s largest of the year by acreage so far. While the cause of the Madre Fire remains under investigation, fire officials ...

A string of suspicious fires across Santa Maria, some still unsolved, has residents on edge, but city officials are taking action.

The fire started around 1 p.m. Wednesday east of Santa Maria near the town of New Cuyama, in northeastern Santa Barbara County at the border of San Luis Obispo County.

A portion of the highway between its intersection with Highway 101 in Santa Maria and the town of New Cuyama has been closed, according to California’s Department of Transportation.

he Madre Fire became California's largest blaze so far this year, ripping through grasslands after breaking out Wednesday in southeastern San Luis Obispo County.

A wildfire in a wilderness area of central California has exploded in size. Dry, hot weather is raising the fire risk for large portions of the state ahead of the July Fourth holiday.

Madre Fire, now California's largest wildfire, burns more than 3,000 acres in two hours Pushed by fast winds, a fire burned more than 3,000 acres within two hours Wednesday afternoon along the border ...

Firefighters were battling a raging vegetation fire off Highway 166 east of Santa Maria that had charred 35,350 acres as of shortly before midnight ...

CAL FIRE officials in Fresno County say they have a strike team and a dozer team that is helping fight the Maria Fire in Santa Paula, which has burned around 9,000 acres.