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

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...

Giannini built on this good will, turning his baby bank into San Francisco’s biggest, branching out across California and ...

We all want homes that are fire-resistant. And earthquake-resistant. And environmentally friendly. And affordable. How much ...

The wildfires devastating the Los Angeles area could cause up to $250 billion in economic damage, comparable to the losses from Hurricane Katrina, The Harvard Business Review writes. This escalating ...

On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, braved the cold to visit the ...

The Los Angeles fires are likely to mark a turning point in how homes are built and insured in the United States. Though it's easy to point to specific failures in Los Angeles- the California ...

An earthquake shook a remote area of the Mojave Desert near Boron and Barstow on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. Here's what we know.

President Donald Trump says he wants to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the U.S. faces the formidable task of rebuilding after Hurricane Helene storm damage in the southeast and ...

The suspect allegedly filmed himself threatening to kill clerks because they wouldn't let him get ...

The Baja California State Office of Civil Protection confirmed a 4.5 temblor occurred at 11:08 a.m. on Thursday, January 23.