California wildfire cleanup is complicated by highly combustible lithium-ion batteries found in electric and hybrid vehicles popular in Los Angeles County.

A group of bicyclists set off an explosion in a trash can, prompting a road closure and a traffic tie-up in downtown Los Angeles. The detonation was reported just after 6:30 p.m. Saturday ...

Wind-driven Palisades and Eaton wildfires, which burned for three weeks ago in Southern California, were successfully ...

Residents in the Los Angeles County community of Sylmar said they once again heard popping noises and a loud explosion. Once again, they saw an orange ball of fire erupt, this time on Jan. 7 below ...

The Hughes fire, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Los Angeles, sent huge flames and plumes of smoke over a hilly area and further taxed firefighters who have managed to bring two major fires in the ...

Similarly, Los Angeles’ disaster is a product of human ... One hundred eight years later, no one who lived through the Halifax Explosion is left. But the Hydrostone, the Halifax neighborhood ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For the past 70 years, Fox’s Restaurant served pancakes, pork loin and catfish to the people of Altadena ...

There were no significant changes in Dallas or St. Louis. Los Angeles wasn’t included in the analysis because systematic rat records weren’t available. L.A. routinely ranks among the top three ...