Thousands of homes are under evacuation orders and warnings because of wildfires in Northern California wine country and in central Oregon.

Two major wildfires in California and Oregon force mass evacuations as firefighters battle blazes amid dangerous heat conditions.

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.