State officials recently added tens of thousands of acres to wildfire hazard zones in and around Ventura County cities.

Creating parks and open space in L.A. County requires overcoming land scarcity, high costs, and other challenges through ...

A Washington Post analysis shows that some officials knew of the fire’s westward spread hours before evacuation orders were sent to residents in western Altadena.

Caltrans is scheduled to close the following freeway ramps and turn lanes of US Route 101, State Route 110 and Interstate 405 ...

A storm has dropped a significant amount of rain across Southern California, triggering the risk of mudslides, flooding and ...

Plus, Hollywood Blvd. gets shut down for dancing, comics and musicians get "LAid" for fire relief, subversive art at Highways ...

In Los Angeles and other offices across the country, the IRC helps them to rebuild their lives. Who are refugees and why are they arriving in Los Angeles? Refugees are people fleeing violence and ...

Eighty percent of those polled backed tougher building codes to make homes more fire resistant even if doing so added to ...

Cal Fire's new hazard zone maps show information on topography, fire weather, flame length, past fire history, vegetation ...

Areas under evacuation warnings include the following: Palisades Fire area: Getty Villa area, Highlands near the burn areas, ...

"It is always a concern, when you live in an area that it is so open, that you could have a fire erupt at any point," said Corinne Beshara.

The next phase of updated California Fire Hazard Severity Zones is set to be released Monday by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and Cal Fire. New maps rating the likelihood and severity of ...