LOS ANGELES After being overwhelmed a month ago, state officials positioned hundreds of firefighters, trucks and planes at strategic staging areas in a bigger-than-usual mobilization that probably saved homes and lives when a wildfire broke out in Malibu over Thanksgiving weekend.

BERKELEY, Calif. Many raw milk consumers are opposing new dairy standards set to take effect next week in California, saying they could outlaw some of their preferred products.

BIG SUR, Calif. A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) "Seinfeld" characters Kramer and Newman once tried driving a mail truck full of empty cans and bottles to Michigan to profit from the state's dime deposit law.

... struck by a boulder rolling down a slope and was hospitalized in critical condition, said Tony Pereira, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry. Wind drove the fire into part of the Cleveland National Forest by Sunday and charred a section ...

... is fire conditions that we can actively fight, unlike the Santa Ana winds," said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. But there was a possibility of strong offshore winds in another seven ...