When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...

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, ...

Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on ...

Google will show Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America" and Alaska's Denali as "Mount McKinley" in the United States once the ...

The Los Angeles wildfires of 2025 have left incredible devastation in their wakes. Although official damage assessments are ...

Rain on land burned by a series of devastating fires in the Los Angeles area has the potential to contribute to flooding and ...

A combination of hotter and drier weather and more people living in places that naturally burn are making things complicated.

USA TODAY analysis finds 3.3 million Americans live in areas with "very high" wildfire risk and 14.8 million more at “relatively high” risk.

Community members to put their tech skills and cameras to work, creating an online map of about 15,000 homes in the Eaton ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

The rain that is expected to hit the scorched Los Angeles landscape this weekend may bring relief to the fire fights, but it ...