Southern California is facing fierce fires fueled by the Santa Ana winds, which threaten homes and put firefighters to the ...

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

Delays in evacuating, or the inability to evacuate safely, can have catastrophic consequences, not only for those trying to ...

The 5 Freeway through Grapevine connecting Los Angeles and Kern counties was shut down Monday due to snow and icy conditions, less than a week after another closure of the same roadway was prompted by ...

Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Friday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near ...

President Donald Trump will visit areas devastated by floods in North Carolina and fires in California, as debates rage about recovery and funding.

That means the entire freeway will be closed in both directions between Grapevine Road and state Route 126 due to ... HUGHES FIRE burning towards Castaic, fire being pushed by winds gusting ...

There are no evacuation orders in place now for the Eaton and Sepulveda Fires in LA County, the Clay Fire in Riverside County or the Laguna Fire in Ventura County. Evacuation orders were in place for ...

The fire, burning near Castaic near Santa Clarita, was first reported around 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, and exploded in size thanks to strong Santa Ana winds, prompting evacuation orders and ...

The community of Castaic, in the northwest of LA ... A plume of smoke from the new Hughes fire is seen behind the California State Route 14 highway from Santa Clarita. Picture: AFP The brush ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation warnings.

Officials ordered evacuations in the area surrounding the Hughes Fire on Wednesday morning, located near Castaic Lake in Los ...