Firefighters gained more ground Thursday on a fast-moving brushfire that erupted north of Los Angeles the day before and ...

Roughly 31,000 people were ordered to flee an area north of Los Angeles on Wednesday after a fast-moving wildfire exploded, growing to more than 10,000 acres within hours, officials said.

The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County began ... growing to 40 acres near the densely populated Sherman Oaks neighborhood and UCLA, but its progress was stopped.