And since only 18% of Altadena’s roughly 42,700 residents are Black, that makes the impact disproportionate on an already dwindling Black community there, said Lorrie Frasure, director of UCLA’s Ralph ...

A proposal to eliminate the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is gaining ground. Some officials in Florida are ...

Friday, 11:00 a.m. PST Cal Fire data marked the Palisades Fire at 98% containment and the Eaton Fire at 99% containment. Thursday, 10:07 p.m. PST The Hughes Fire reached full containment nine days ...

President Trump is considering eliminating FEMA citing inefficiency. States and climate advocates say FEMA needs a fix but it also needs to stay.

The actions prompted a tense standoff between the U.S. and Colombia after Colombia's president turned away deportation ...

"California is the largest contributor of tax revenue to the federal treasury by far," Padilla wrote Jan. 27 on X. "In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency crews continue working Friday to identify and remove hazardous waste from properties ravaged in this month’s wildfires, as many residents return to sift through ...

Republican and Democratic voters across the US are reeling from climate-fueled disasters, with thousands of homes and ...

Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...

The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles are prompting officials in New York’s Orange County to reflect on their own disaster response strategies.

On Friday, while visiting victims of September’s Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, Mr. Trump said he was considering ...

Legal experts suggest the nation’s largest municipal utility will face paying damages to homeowners after fire crews were ...