As the cleanup phase of recovery begins after the devastating fires in L.A. County, displaced residents grapple with new ...

Southern California is facing fierce fires fueled by the Santa Ana winds, which threaten homes and put firefighters to the ...

With increasingly hot weather and topographical features that resemble those in parts of Southern California, the booming ...

Facing the uncertainties of droughts, wildfires, blackouts, poor air quality, mudslides and flooding, here are some ideas ...

As widespread rain moves into Southern California, residents in the recent burn scar areas brace for mudslides, rockslides, ...

About a third of US homes are in a wildland-urban interface, a kind of high-risk area where development meets open land.

By Katherine Zehnder Raleigh, NC – his week the North Carolina Fire Service rated the state’s Piedmont, Sandhills, and Coastal Plains areas as “high risk” for fire. State fire officials say that ...

Man might be moving the needle a tad by the usual greenhouse gas emissions culprits, but what is driving the tsunami of late ...

Héctor Tobar, the son of Guatemalan immigrants, writes in his 2011 novel The Barbarian ... Those same Santa Anas, which blow ...

Many factors, such as strong Santa Ana winds and urban planning decisions, played into the recent destructive wildfires in ...

While the cause of fires remains unknown, the severity and growth of these fires can be attributed to the weather, specifically, the Santa Ana winds. Typically, the winds in Southern California ...

The reason for the start of the California wildfires is in part due to the Santa-Ana winds. These form over the Sierra mountains when high pressure builds in from the east. Air pushes down the ...