Lake County

Five people were injured after a truck slammed into a Starbucks in suburban McHenry on Thursday evening, according to police.

A 3.6 earthquake rattled Sonoma County near the Geysers on Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.summary

People still evacuated from their homes because of the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County are not likely to be able to return home Tuesday as firefighters battle the blaze amid dry and windy conditions in the next 24 hours, authorities said at a morning briefing.

Firefighters in Northern California’s wine country are racing to surround a destructive wildfire that has destroyed dozens of homes as another windstorm blows into the region. Pete Suratos and Kari Hall report.

With ferocious winds driving multiple wildfires through bone-dry vegetation and nearly 200,000 people ordered to leave their homes, California’s governor declared a statewide emergency Sunday. Meanwhile, millions of residents remained without power after the state’s largest utility cut electricity as a precaution to prevent more areas from igniting. The biggest evacuation was in Northern California’s Sonoma County where 180,000 people...

A wind-whipped wildfire in rural Sonoma County near the Lake County line has burned about 16,000 acres, destroyed at least 49 structures and prompted mandatory evacuations, officials said Thursday.

A brush fire in Lake County prompted mandatory evacuations Thursday night, according to Cal Fire.

Defense attorneys for Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Almena have filed a motion seeking a “significant” reduction in his $750,000 bail on 36 involuntary manslaughter charges for a 2016 fire at the Oakland building that killed 36 people.

When California’s largest utility warned it would cut power to thousands to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires during warm, windy weather, officials in the wealthy wine region of Sonoma County sprang into action.

Pear brandy and chili vodka? Wow. St George Spirits in Bay Area is taking Malou Nubla inside the factory to show you how it’s made on California Live Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019.

Indiana health officials say they’ve confirmed that a resident died from severe lung injury linked to vaping, as U.S. health officials once again urged people to stop vaping as they investigate. The death announced Friday by the Indiana State Department of Health is the state’s first and the country’s third tied to the use of electronic cigarettes. Previous deaths have...

A 20-acre fire has been reported off of Highway 29 and Cole Creek Road south of Kelseyville in Lake County, according to a Tweet from Cal Fire.

Cal Fire officials in Lake County have confirmed that the Golf Fire that threatened homes near Kelseyville was sparked by a discarded cigarette.

A discarded cigarette ignited the Golf Fire in Lake County, Cal Fire said Saturday following “a meticulous and thorough investigation.”

The 33-acre vegetation Golf Fire burning in south Lake County was 30 percent contained Friday morning, Cal Fire said. The fire started around 1 p.m. Thursday on Soda Bay Road and Golf Drive. Forty structures were threatened but none were damaged, Cal Fire said.

A wildfire Thursday afternoon is threatening structures in Lake County, officials said.

A wildfire Thursday afternoon is threatening structures in Lake County, officials said.

Authorities say nine people were injured when a pickup truck struck a large mountain lion on a Northern California highway and then veered into an oncoming SUV.

One of two men charged with imprisoning a 15-year-old girl in a metal box at their Northern California marijuana farm was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years in federal prison.

Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops. The posts were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent two years looking at the personal Facebook accounts...