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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs Assembly Bill 2147 after he toured the North Complex Fire zone in Butte County on Friday. AB 2147 allows inmates who have worked as firefighters to ask the court to dismiss their charges to make it easier for them to find a job once they are released. | Paul Kitagaki…

A Southern California sheriff's deputy accused of stealing items from an unoccupied home days after he responded to a report of a death there is facing a burglary charge, officials said Thursday.Steve Hortz, a 12-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, was arrested Thursday and placed on administrative leave, sheriff's officials said in a…

More than three million acres have burned in California, and officials said one of the most damaging fires in Oregon may have been deliberately set.VideotranscripttranscriptRecord Wildfires Ravage Three StatesWildfires in California, Oregon and Washington State have killed at least seven people, and there are growing fears more have died in towns that have been destroyed.Last…

At least seven people are dead including a 12-year-old boy and his grandmother as 200 wildfires continue to rage across California, Oregon and Washington after already decimating an area the same size as Connecticut.The youngster and his grandmother died in a wildfire burning near the Santiam Valley community of Lyons, about 50 miles south of…

Strong winds were likely to continue to propel the extraordinary number of fires burning in California, Oregon and Washington State.Right Now“We expect to see a great deal of loss, both in structures and in human lives,” said Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon, where fires have burned more than 300,000 acres.Videotranscripttranscript‘Everything Gone’: Fires Tear Through the…