Contractors test soil samples for contaminants like lead or mercury and remove tainted soil. If a section still tests high, ...

Those include higher rates of employment in industries requiring a physical presence, higher exposure to air pollution and ...

A lawsuit filed Monday claims Southern California Edison equipment sparked the Eaton Fire. The lawsuit alleges that Southern ...

As crews work to clean up from the Los Angeles wildfires, city officials and residents are opposing the designation of a ...

Many municipalities are already considering approaching voters with a wide range of new taxes and borrowing measures they ...

By Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters In just a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, ...

From 40 school districts in Sonoma County to 88 cities in Los Angeles County, California likes local control — even if they ...

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...

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 fire was likely. Did they do enough to get ready?

A perfect storm of climate extremes set the stage for devastating wildfires in Los Angeles in early 2025. After two ...