California has faced budget crises before, but this could be the perfect storm of a chronically unbalanced budget made ...

In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes ...

Harrowing video shows two deputies rescuing a 100-year-old woman as the Eaton Fire approached her senior living facility.

Four cities in Southern California are opposing an EPA processing site for "hazardous" waste from Los Angeles County's ...

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

Forecasts say the chances of flash flooding are not high, but even so, city crews are reinforcing roads and telling residents ...

Impacts of the LA fires on the the Latino community - the country's largest by percentage - are acute and will be long ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire fly down a residential street in Altadena, California, on January 8. Robyn ...

Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less severe than modern fires and may have even been beneficial to forests ...

Twenty-eight people have died across the Los Angeles area. Officials have said the true death toll isn’t known as the fires ...