VAL VERDE — Firefighters made substantial inroads gaining control of the 5,370-acre Canyon fire with containment growing ...

The Canyon fire has scorched roughly 4,856 acres near Val Verde, straddling Los Angeles and Ventura counties, according to ...

Castaic High School was closed Friday as the northeast perimeter of the massive Canyon Fire continued to burn near the campus ...

A fast-moving brush fire that erupted Thursday near Lake Piru in Ventura County rapidly burned 1,500 acres and spread into ...

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued Thursday afternoon for the Lake Piru and Val Verde areas as a wildfire burned nearby ...

Crews continued to make progress Saturday establishing containment lines around the Canyon Fire straddling the Los ...

California officials warned of hot, dry weather that could contribute to “rapid” fire growth and “significant fire behavior.” ...

The National Weather Service reported that temperatures in the area were hovering around 100 degrees Thursday afternoon.

VAL VERDE >> The park built in the 1930s for African-Americans who were banned from recreation areas still sits in the middle of Val Verde, a hideaway town 25 miles north of the San Fernando Valley.

The Val Verde Unified School District, which has been under scrutiny for spending state bond money on locker room whirlpools, state-of-the-art athletic facilities and other luxuries, sued the ...

At Val Verde he was experimenting with concrete and using the same footprint of nine geometric modules, a design sacred to Japanese architecture, as he would at the Los Angeles Central Library.