Recent storms in Southern California have significantly lowered the threat of wildfires, so much so that the National Weather Service is planning to transition to a low- fire-risk season early next ...

A statewide Cal Fire program risks making fires worse by removing native chaparral and allowing the spread of more flammable ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged ...

The backstory: Homelessness among families with children has been on the rise. At the same time, recent funding cuts have ...

With sandbags at the ready and evacuation warnings in place, Southern California is bracing for potential damage from an atmospheric river storm expected to arrive Thursday evening. However, according ...

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This autumn brought something that isn’t always common for much of California — a decent amount of rain in October. Rather than heat waves, there have been umbrellas. After years in which some of the ...

A new report commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom on the spread of the Palisades and Eaton fires suggests that the movement of the Eaton fire from east Pasadena into west Altadena occurred earlier than ...