The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Northern California rocked a quiet neighborhood and sparked a wildfire late Tuesday afternoon near the communities of Esparto and Madison, California, according to officials.

Video from the U.S. Forest Service Los Padres National Forest and CAL Fire shows the Madre Fire turning the sky orange across Southern California on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. The fire quickly spread, becoming the state's largest this year.

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Nine months after first proposing to increase the annual amount allocated to California's film and TV tax credit program, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed it into law.

"We can look forward to our members getting back to work where they live," the Entertainment Union Coalition says

A California court delivered a strong fine to Google over its "misuse" of Android users' data over cell connections.

Google has been ordered to pay $314.6 million to Android phone users in California for collecting data from idle phones.