As the Hawk Fire burns near Reno suburbs, California's largest wildfires this season have largely been confined to rural and remote landscapes.

The fire started Wednesday at 11:01 a.m. and is burning along Forest Road 23S10, east of Los Burros Road near Plaskett, within the jurisdiction of the U.S.

After a long fight, officials in California adopted stronger fire-safe landscaping rules within five feet of a home.

Leading lawmakers coalesce around penalizing utility CEOs for wildfires, rejecting other elements of Newsom’s proposal. Details remain thin.

Should California utility companies be shielded from massive wildfire lawsuits when their equipment sparks deadly fires? Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing a controversial proposal that could reshape who pays for the damage from future disasters.

The stakes are high for California, where wildfires have burned through millions of acres in the last decade — killing more than 220 people, hastening the deaths of tens of thousands more, and racking up tens to hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

The Pickett Fire destroyed Napa Valley wineries' grapes and substantially burned one vineyard owned by PlumpJack Group, co-founded by Gavin Newsom. It's the only one so far to get compensation.

The bookends of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s nearly eight years in office have been defined by a crucial question: Who should cover the cost of damage from wildfires caused by utility equipment?

Fire crews with water-dropping aircraft attacked a small wildfire that prompted new evacuations Thursday along California's remote Big Sur coast, where a much larger blaze has been burning for nearly three weeks.