President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bypass California permits to rebuild homes destroyed in last year's wildfires in Los Angeles.

Adnan Rajib, an assistant professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, has received a $199,993 RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation to study post-wildfire water quality in Los Angeles and help local authorities understand and predict the lingering effects of wildfires on the city’s water supply.

A new wildfire was reported today at 3:58 a.m. at in Los Angeles County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.

Wildfire debates often collapse into a single word: climate. Yet the record from California’s worst recent seasons points to something more immediate and more uncomfortable. The spark that turns a dry hillside into a disaster is overwhelmingly human,

As the communities of Altadena and the Palisades continue to recover and rebuild one year after the deadly January 2025 wildfires, NBCLA is looking back at the disaster that forever changed lives, how the tragedies altered the landscape of Southern ...

The National Weather Service’s Sacramento office just issued its fire weather watch of the season.

Pregnant women's exposure to wildfire smoke — particularly in the third trimester — may increase the risk of autism in their children, according to new research.

In 2022, Edwin Castro became biggest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Powerball. In January 2025, California wildfires impacted one of his homes.

A typical single-family house is encircled by green, its shrubs and plants sitting just under windows and hugging exterior walls. It's an image that California is trying to get homeowners to rethink as the state's risk of extreme wildfires grows.

THE FIRE NEXT TIME: A year after the Los Angeles fires laid bare failures in how California pays for wildfire damage, politicians are still weighing their next move.