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.

Officials across the Los Angeles area had plenty of warning that a deadly confluence of wind and drought was coming. A bad ...

Laguna Beach city officials reestablished the wildfire mitigation and fire safety ad hoc committee after substantial ...

Steven Witkoff, who played an important role in brokering the truce between Israel and Hamas, also met with Israel’s prime ...

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after the fires first began to burn through their neighborhoods.

LET’S GO TO L.A. COUNTY NOW, WHERE A FIRE HAS FORCED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO EVACUATE AS CREWS HAVE RUSHED IN TO TRY TO ...

As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

The Hughes fire, spanning Los Angeles and Ventura counties, has forced mandatory evacuations for 31,000 people, with 23,000 ...