Back-to-back earthquakes jolt Los Angeles area within hours
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 rattled the L.A. metropolitan area early Saturday just hours after a 3.8-magnitude quake shook the Malibu area shortly before midnight Friday.
Updated CalFire map shows increase in 'very high' fire hazard acreage in Northern California
CalFire released a new map this week, expanding hazardous fire zones in Northern California. It's part of Governor Gavin ...
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Newsom’s executive order mandating 5-foot clearance around homes: What does it mean?
With climate change contributing to larger, more frequent wildfires, state authorities have focused heavily on pushing ...
New California wildfire maps: See 'Very High' fire hazard zones by county
A recent executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to ramp up fire safety in urban areas as new maps released by ...
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Land Use Matters February 2025 | CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal Developments
Los Angeles County - Executive Order Streamlines Path to Rebuild Homes, Businesses, and Communities Destroyed by Los Angeles Firestorms - In ...
Cal Fire’s updated fire-hazard maps will double the area of locally managed land that must comply with safety codes
Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...
‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...
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Marin stakeholders, citing LA fires, escalate housing opposition
The pushback is coming from areas of the county with greater wildfire risks and potential evacuation problems.
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The Los Angeles County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...
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Incoming rain brings mudslides threat to burn zones
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A flood watch will go into effect Sundy in recent Los Angeles County wildfire areas, as the first of what's expected to be three days of rain arrives and authorities switch ...