When hills are healthy, vegetation can anchor the soil in place. But when that is burned off, hillsides become vulnerable to erosion, and slopes can come crashing down.

This is the fourth eartquake to hit California with others felt across the region including shaking in San Bernardino, ...

MORGAN HILL, Calif. - A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck east of Morgan Hill on Friday, the USGS reported. The earthquake was ...

Los Angeles Clippers (26-20, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (20-23, 12th in the Western Conference) San Antonio; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio takes on Los ...

Ominous “HELP” messages carved onto debris in Los Angeles and spotted on Google Maps have raised alarm among social media users. Zoomed-in satellite images of a rail yard off of the San ...

As far away as Los Angeles ... of the San Andreas fault in 2017, many have not yet acted on needed seismic safety upgrades. Jones estimated that about 6 million residents of Los Angeles County ...

Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los ...

The entire Southern California region remains on high alert as blazes recently broke out in parts of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties ... See below for a map of the latest blaze ...

The Hughes Fire has spread to over 8,000 acres in Los Angeles County's Castaic ... blazes recently broke out in parts of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties, where red flag warnings ...

the Los Angeles Fire Department has advised. Firefighters douse the Lilac Fire north of San Diego on Tuesday, which sparked as the Santa Ana winds picked up. AP The winds have the potential to ...

Jason Parkhurst-Imagn Images The Genesis Invitational is moving south this year to Torrey Pines due to the serious wildfires that have plagued the Los Angeles ... Pines in San Diego, where the ...

Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning with disaster. By Somini Sengupta Often when you’re visiting Los ...