When hills are healthy, vegetation can anchor the soil in place. But when that is burned off, hillsides become vulnerable to erosion, and slopes can come crashing down.

There is now a 30% chance of intense rain between Feb. 12 and 15 in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo ...

With heavy rain bringing the risk of dangerous debris flows, the Los Angeles Fire Department has announced evacuation ...

Southern California faces a risk of damaging debris flows this week, as a potentially strong atmospheric river is set to ...

To help small businesses and workers in Los Angeles and Ventura counties impacted by the ongoing wildfires to recover and ...

The wildfires that burned across Southern California in early January ... mudslides that followed the Thomas Fire in January 2018. The mudslides killed 23 people and destroyed or damaged roughly ...

California’s multi-billion dollar wildfire fund is at risk of running dry because of the carnage caused by the Eaton Fire and ...

The latest response of California’s top regulatory commission to a disaster caused by an electric company can lead to only one logical question: How badly must the state’s regional monopoly ...

The first significant storm of the season brought snow and downpours to Southern California that doused wildfires and caused some ...

One of the most notable examples of flash flooding after a wildfire occurred in 2018, following the devastating Thomas Fire ...

"A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly," the NWS said.

California is no stranger ... generally lower from November through January. But as UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability covered in 2018, the L.A. area's low humidity year ...