A powerful March storm has been lashing the West Coast with heavy rainfall, gusty winds and snowfall in the mountains –– shifting southward and posing a particular threat to communities scorched by the deadly Los Angeles wildfires from the start of the year.

California braced for the arrival of a massive storm on Wednesday, evacuating residents in areas at risk of mudslides and debris flows.

An evacuation warning is in place for parts of the Palisades Fire burn zone. The centre-Right Demokraatit Party is celebrating an upset parliamentary election victory in Greenland, after Donald Trump said the US would take control of the island “one way or another”.