A policeman and the suspect were killed following a shooting incident inside the Carmona City Police Station on Wednesday ...

A policeman died while another is critical following a shooting incident inside the Carmona City Police Station on Wednesday ...

A police officer and a former prisoner were killed while another was wounded in an alleged shootout at the Carmona police ...

People living near a power plant in Central California were ordered to evacuate their homes Thursday night after a fire broke out at the facility, officials said.

At 6:30 p.m., the North County Fire Protection District and Monterey County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a report of a fire at the Moss Landing Moss 300 building, Fire Chief Joel Mendoza ...

Monterey County officials declared a local emergency after a fire ignited at a power plant and one of the largest lithium battery storage facilities in the world last week, releasing a large plume ...

Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire District said at this point, most of the fire had gone out. He was speaking at a press conference held by the County of Monterey.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation, Mendoza said. There were about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries in the section of the facility that burned, said Eric Sandusky, the federal on-scene ...

North County Fire Protection District Chief Joel Mendoza said at the press conference that every battery rack inside the facility has a "fire suppression system," but it wasn't enough.

About 80% of the plant, and the lithium batteries it housed, were consumed in the fire, said Joel Mendoza, chief of the North Monterey County Fire Department, at a Saturday press conference.

“The point is to reduce the fire risk by disconnecting these batteries from each other,” said Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire Protection District of Monterey County.