The Santa Anas are expected to be most powerful Monday night into Tuesday. Fire services across the region say they are ready ...

Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains ...

Scores of residents were urged to flee as fast-moving fires hurtled through bone-dry brush in Bonsall and Mission Valley ...

Parched Southern California could get some badly needed rain this weekend to dampen the prospects of another round of killer ...

Just like wind and drought were major factors in why the fires spread so quickly, calmer wind speeds, more humidity, lower temperatures and more wind or rain can all help extinguish fires. The level ...

Other parts of LA County are bracing for renewed fire danger. Long Beach will be mostly shielded from the winds.

Dangerously high winds were expected to resume on Monday in Los Angeles, potentially hampering efforts to extinguish two stubborn wildfires that have levelled whole neighbourhoods and claimed the ...

In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among ...

LOS ANGELES — Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds ... knock down trees or kick up dust and particulate matter, the winds have long ...

Rows of chimneys now stand like tombstones, towering palm trees like burned matchsticks ... but whipped by ferocious Santa Ana winds, those blazes roared down city streets and spread like a ...

Firefighters in Los Angeles raced to contain two wildfires that burned for the sixth straight day on Sunday, taking advantage ...

But by January, the threat feels less palpable, because the landscape is usually wet. San Francisco International Airport, for instance, has received 107% of the year’s average annual rainfall.