Roaring flames, wind-whipped embers and the smoking remains of homes have filled newscasts, websites and social media over ...

Reading and maintaining a human connection have a vital role to play as extreme events that have long served as the stuff of ...

Ferocious Santa Ana winds fueled blazes in Southern California. Yet weather can also help determine how long a fire will last ...

The Palisades wildfires have taken out a big chunk of Malibu. A decade after the 1984 LA Olympics, scholar and activist Mike Davis had famously argued The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. He wrote ...

Firefighters are making progress, officials said, but residents must be ready for a return of powerful winds that could spread flames.

THE words ‘hellish’ and ‘hellscape’ have been repeatedly deployed lately as shorthand for the fate of vast localities in ...

In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy.

UW-Stevens Point forest ecology professor Mike Tiller discussed whether wildfires like those in the Los Angeles area could ...

For those who did want to contemplate it, the public reckoning follows a now-familiar, grim pattern: “Climate change will ...

Daniels says Los Angeles is similar to Vancouver in that most of its fires are human-caused, either directly or indirectly, ...

In this month’s massive Los Angeles fires, so far 24 people have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and ...

The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles carry a warning for western North Carolina: It could be next. Ironically, it’s a ...