If you buy into stereotypes and myths, the climate in Southern California is splendid and the people are laid back. Lies. The ...

San Diego is often praised as one of the safest big cities in California – but does it really live up to that reputation? While it’s not a crime hotbed, no city is completely risk-free. If you’re ...

California has a long history of wildfires ... so many lives across the city at once since the 1994 Northridge Earthquake Santa Ana winds, a major factor behind some of the worst wildfires in ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake,” writes Joy Press—“never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city.” ...

Millions of California residents were placed under a red flag warning through Thursday amid threats of further fires with ...

Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 — a ...

Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... of a nation’s nightmares. “Earthquake” (1974) and “San ...

to change the subject from the failure of the state and local government to contain the fires that often accompany Santa Ana winds. The theory is that climate change caused two especially wet ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 book of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem. "(T)he violence and the ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an order Thursday making $2.5 billion available for response and recovery efforts as fire weary residents brace for yet another threat as Santa Ana winds fan the ...