Smoke has a way of stopping people in their tracks. One whiff drifting across a parking lot is often all it takes to change ...

Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination's biggest problems ...

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The first studies of last year’s fires have revealed some unexpected hazards of urban mega-fires.

In Orange County, passport services come to you, Trump lawyers urge Supreme Court to block California’s new election map and more big stories ...

This isn’t just California’s story—nationwide, about 85% of U.S. wildfires are human-caused, from accidents and equipment ...