A powerful atmospheric river battered California over the weekend of November 13–17, 2025, unleashing historic rainfall that ...

In less than 24 hours, California experienced nearly a dozen weather and natural events - heavy rain, flooding, lightning, snow, high winds, landslides, fog, blowing dust, wildfires, a rainbow and an ...

A powerful earthquake along a major California fault jolted millions of residents out of their routines, then kept nerves on edge as a drumbeat of aftershocks rolled across the region. The main shock ...

According to a Nov. 26 press release, in 2025, local volunteers became a lifeline for hundreds of neighbors reeling from disasters like home fires, wildfires and more ...

California has experienced nature’s wrath this year, with wildfires, droughts and earthquakes ravaging the Golden State. While the impact of the natural disasters has been felt among industries, ...

U.S. states have set up insurers to provide protection in disaster-prone areas that private insurance has avoided. They are taking on more risks as calamities become widespread.

Bench Ansfield is an assistant professor of history at Temple University and author of “Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City.” Today, most think of the ...

Within weeks of the Los Angeles firestorms in January, the city of Berkeley, California, moved to do what the state had failed to for years: mandating ember-resistant zones around wildfire-vulnerable ...

Thousands of people gathered at Cal Expo on Friday afternoon for the first day of Sacramento's annual Hmong New Year celebration.