Weeks after the Eaton Fire burned through Altadena, USC researchers were curious if there were high levels of lead in the soil. Here’s what they found.

Large-scale fire events are on the rise, from the flames that raged for days across LA, to the widespread devastation seen in ...

In this course, eight professors share their disciplinary perspectives to help students analyze proposed interventions for ...

Going out to eat? See which Marion County restaurants were rated best by inspectors, and which failed the test.

The bassist and lyricist said he wrote the 1980 song about world events and the looming threat of another world war ...

Actor and host of “Reading Rainbow” LeVar Burton will speak at East Tennessee State University’s annual Festival of Ideas on Feb. 27. ETSU announced on Friday that Burton would be the keynote speaker ...

After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory chases element 120 ...

A Jan. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) claims to show a costly and empty rainbow-painted fire hydrant across the street from a row of homes engulfed in flames. “No water ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn Thursday morning, but locals and first responders had some reason for optimism despite ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...