Firefighters raced Saturday to cut off spreading wildfires before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames ...

A fierce battle against the flames is underway in Mandeville Canyon, home to Arnold Schwarzenegger and other celebrities not far from the Pacific coast.

Many watched their homes burn on television in a state of shock. Since the flames erupted in and around Los Angeles, scores ...

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped ...

Most climate scientists are certain that global warming has played a critical role in the California wildfires, despite ...

Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?

When you have 60 mph winds or greater, there is no fire chief, water supply or budget that is going to put out fires like ...

The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions ...

As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual ...

The Palisades and Eaton fires tear through homes and leave at least five dead. Smaller fires also add to state of alert in ...

When you get high pressure in the east, and low pressure off the coast, you get winds moving from east to west. Normally, ...

Our family’s flight from the L.A. fires brought the difference between vague preparedness and real emergency into shockingly ...