If you buy into stereotypes and myths, the climate in Southern California is splendid and the people are laid back. Lies. The conditions are harsh, with crazy winds and parched terrain cooking up one ...

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

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

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

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires have decimated entire suburban neighborhoods — and extinguished any hopes of fire-insurance ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Is urban San Francisco out of the woods in terms of fire insurance problems caused in Los Angeles? Here's what San Francisco ...

To better understand when a big earthquake is coming, there are earthquake monitoring stations across the state in remote ...

Shrinking church attendance. Closing congregations. Minister shortages. Post-COVID upheaval. All those factors contributed to ...

The Los Gatos Town Council at its Tuesday meeting voted to set aside $1 million for emergency management efforts in the wake ...