One of Trump's first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from sanctuary states and cities, including ...

AM Best, a credit rating agency specialising in the insurance sector, reports that the recent surge of wildfires across Southern California has deepened ...

Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park was destroyed by a fire in 2017—but mostly recovered. It could be a model for Altadena and Pacific ...

A federal scientific publication has returned from a forced two-week hiatus with two papers examining the health effects of ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As Los Angeles reels from deadly January wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes, California ...

A new report from UCLA Anderson Forecast suggests the two largest wildfires that tore through LA County may have caused more ...

Introduction: A Historic Settlement amidst Devastation The wildfires that ravaged California in 2017 and 2018 left behind a trail of destruction, displacing thousands, costing over a hundred lives, ...

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State utility regulators on Thursday approved a settlement that will require Southern California Edison customers to foot about $1.7 billion in claims from the 2017 Thomas Fire and the resulting ...

This study examines the impact of geographically limited disasters on health care quality performance scores of Medicare Advantage contracts, finding limited impact on performance scores.

Today on AirTalk, fill in host Jacob Margolis takes an early look at the atmospheric river that will be hitting Los Angeles later this month. Also on the show, we explore how debris runoff could ...