The Pickett Fire in California's Napa County had burned 4,690 acres as of Saturday morning, making it the largest fire in the Bay Area since last year.

The wildfire spread to more than 2,100 acres hours after erupting near Calistoga, authorities said. Evacuation orders were issued in parts of Napa County.

Firefighters have started making progress on containing a wildfire that sparked Thursday near Calistoga in Napa County and prompted evacuation orders and warnings, Cal Fire officials said

California Democrats may have successfully muscled a new congressional map through the state legislature this week, but the redistricting fight in the Golden State is only just beginning.

Lofgren, the chair of California’s 43-member Democratic delegation, consulted in June with a trusted data expert who dismissed it as absurd — a foolhardy end-run around the state’s popular redistricting panel with no guarantee of yielding enough blue seats to fully offset Texas.

After Texas and California, the legislative action in a nationwide redistricting battle is set to move to Missouri and three other Republican-led states.

The parents of a Southern California baby, reported missing by his mother, have been arrested and accused of murder, authorities said Friday. San Bernardino County sheriff's homicide detectives arrested Jake Haro, 32, and Rebecca Haro, 41, at their home in Cabazon and booked them on suspicion of murder, according to the department.

San Bernardino deputies arrested missing baby Emmanuel Haro’s parents for murder, a week after the mother claimed he was abducted in Yucaipa.

L yle Menendez will remain in prison after the California parole board rejected his bid for freedom on Friday night, a day after officials rejected his brother's release. The pair must wait three more years until their next parole hearing.

Lyle Menendez received the same recommendation as his brother Erik when he was denied parole Friday after serving decades in prison for the murder of their parents in 1989. A panel of two commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years,