Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

Growth of the Madre Fire burning off Highway 166 expanded overnight, now having scorched 70,801 acres by Friday morning.

Matt LaFever has reported on California’s North Coast in print and radio for nearly a decade. A Humboldt State grad and ...

The Madre fire burning in San Luis Obispo County has grown to become the largest wildfire California has seen this year. It ...

In 2022, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory launched a satellite sensor to map minerals in the Earth’s dusty, arid regions. But that’s not all it’s useful for—in a new study, scientists ...

For more than a generation, Big Sur — a 71-mile stretch of California coastline, both pristine and accessible to the public — ...

Southern California Edison is ready with power outage maps if high winds materialize. Some areas are already without power.

The Flying Ministers: The Salvation Army’s “Flying Padres” cross the Australian outback by air, dropping in on ranches and ...

Poor air quality caused by ozone and other sources prompted the warnings across six states on Thursday and Friday.

Operated by Amtrak, the Coast Starlight has been running from Los Angeles to Seattle in its present form for 50 years. Rail buffs may ride the route for its full 35-hour, 1,377-mile duration, but ...

Fireworks are happening across the city again this year, which poses two issues–highly concentrated pollution, and uniquely ...