The native landscape is chaparral, not forest—and clearing out the brush could make fires even worse. When the Palisades Fire ...

The recent wildfires in California were worsened by climate change, a report found. The study, released Tuesday by World ...

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared ...

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

Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions ...

The team used observations of past weather and computer simulations that compared what happened this month to a what-if world ...

Much-needed rain helped firefighters make gains on several blazes in Southern California on Monday as ... including the potential for toxic runoff in the fire-ravaged region.

We continue with our remembrances of the 29 people who died in the fires in Southern California. The Los Angeles County ...

Southern California is about to get its first significant rainfall in months, bringing desperately needed relief after dry conditions and hazardous winds fueled a series of wildfires in January.

Southern California's wildfire risk looks to be less severe than it was earlier this month, but the region is expected to remain exceptionally dry for this time of year. Multiple wildfires ...

The catastrophic fires that ripped through Southern California over the last three weeks were spurred by extremely dry conditions and unusually strong Santa Ana winds, in addition to water ...