Each fire’s impact could depend on what was burning, for how long, and levels of public awareness, researchers hypothesize.

Tree-mounted sensors and new satellites promise a way to detect wildfires before they get out of hand—but no early detection ...

The recent LA fires have been all over the news and social media, with people sharing how they had to leave their childhood ...

New regulatory filing shows power line surges, problems during high winds, including at a transmission tower near start of ...

New regulatory filings shows power line surges, malfunctions during high winds, including at a transmission tower near where ...

As rainfall continued its Tuesday deluge, the Chico City Council had its elemental opposite — fire — firmly in mind. The meeting agenda revisited three items raised previously: Tom van Overbeek’s ...

SCE concedes in the filing that a conductor failure occurred near the origin of the fire, causing damaged equipment to fall ...

Prostate Cancer Rates Jump In California: A new study from UCSF reveals an “alarming” rise in advanced prostate cancer rates across California. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the rate of advanced ...

The cause of that fire is still under investigation ... making this crisis the most expensive Southern California fire to date. The 2018 Camp Fire, which previously held that title, cost ...

Really, this applies to public employees at every level — the narrative that city hall, county center, the statehouse and D.C. all overflow with lazy, incompetent bureaucrats who entrench and enrich ...