A new rain storm is bearing down on California, including fire-ravaged Los Angeles, where residents are bracing for the possibility of mudslides and landslides.

In extreme conditions, no amount of brush clearance can guarantee protection. Indeed, too much clearing can in fact leave ...

Over the three-day storm, L.A. County's burn areas are expected to receive several inches of rain. How fast the rain falls ...

"If you decide to stay inside your property in an evacuated area, debris from the burn scar areas and storm may impede roads and we may not be able to reach you," said Los Angeles County Sheriff ...

San Gabriel Valley areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they ...

Scientists using seismic data tracked groundwater levels beneath the L.A. area. They found heavy rains in 2023 boosted ...

Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows. They have ...

With a potentially dangerous storm bearing down on the Southland, evacuation warnings will take effect in multiple areas Thursday amid fears that steady downpours could spark flooding, mudslides and ...

Thursday’s storms followed two days of heavy snow and freezing rain in a swath of the eastern U.S. stretching from Kentucky to Washington, D.C., that caused hundreds of traffic accidents, knocked out ...

M y wife — as usual — understood the situation before I did. The night before, Monday, Jan. 6, we’d both been awoken by the ...

As the effort continued to clear fire debris from residential properties in the Eaton and Palisades burn areas, the city of ...

As a principal engineer for the county’s Public Works Department, Klippel’s job is to try to stop catastrophic flows of mud, ...