An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

Meryl Streep had to take matters into her own hands when evacuating from the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this month, ...

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and ...

Human-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the dangerous overlap between flammable drought ...

Climate change did not cause the Los Angeles wildfires, nor the now infamous Santa Ana winds. But its fingerprints were all over the recent disaster, says a large new study from World Weather ...

A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and Eaton fires.

Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.

Los Angeles officials lifted the last remaining evacuation orders on Monday, weeks after the devastating Palisades Fire first ...

President Trump's executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won’t do anything to ...

Montana firefighters have returned from Los Angeles where they were helping local crews battling the Palisades Fire.

Natural disasters affect property taxes, which can be shocking to homeowners, especially as they head into tax season.

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...