When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...

As the impact of climate change takes its toll and areas see record-breaking temperatures and droughts, violent blazes have flared up all over the world. We take a look at some of the most violent and ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

New flood barriers would extend on the west side of the Napa River from near the Oxbow at the River Terrace Inn to north of ...

The National Weather Service has updated the flood watch, which will be in place until 10 p.m. Sunday night. The flood watch ...

The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...

Three weeks after the Palisades and Eaton Fires, many impacted families are starting to figure out their plans moving forward ...

All wildfires burning in Southern California were largely contained as of Thursday morning, even after a new fire ignited in San Luis Obispo County on Wednesday afternoon. Multiple wildfires continue ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...

The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...