If you buy into stereotypes and myths, the climate in Southern California is splendid and the people are laid back. Lies. The ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation ...

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After a weekend of reprieve allowing fire teams to continue making progress battling the deadly infernos burning in Los ...

The median home price in Palisades, an affluent residential area, is more than $3 million, the J.P. Morgan report stated, while the median home price in Butte County, where the Camp Fire burned in ...

Santa Ana winds return to Southern California from Monday to Tuesday, once again raising fire danger concerns.

"So many factors helped make our current natural disaster one of the largest in American history: a warming planet, an ...

On arrival in 1542 to what was later to become Los Angeles, the Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo saw smoke rising from ...

T housands of personnel—firefighters, first responders, and the National Guard—have turned their attention towards stifling ...

The Los Angeles wildfires have reduced entire communities to ash, prompting some of those who lost their homes to vow to ...

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.