Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to ...

The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for Los Angeles and parts of Ventura County through Thursday ...

Studies have linked early deaths and asthma exacerbations to chronic exposure to particulate matter in wildfire smoke.

We built a massive civilization in a place where fire is as much a part of the natural habitat as summer rains are in the ...

Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.

I’d been paying attention to the wind and the fire that started earlier that day in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles ...

Americans are watching the TV news with horror and sadness as tales unfold of the wildfires that are sweeping across Southern ...

As wildfires continue to rage in Los Angeles, one Angeleno grapples with the reality of having to escape her life — without ...

In Los Angeles, people stay for the movie credits. After the awful images of these fires are gone, they will stay to rebuild ...

Santa Ana winds occur when air flows west from a region of high pressure over the dry Great Basin to lower pressure off the ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region ...