Lafayette native Mike Miley delves into the legacy of filmmaker David Lynch in his new book, 'David Lynch’s American ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is again urging residents to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in the ocean because of the debris and ash in the water from fires ravaging the ...

Across Latin America, some urban residents live in homes on unstable terrain, where rainfall and river flooding threaten the structural integrity of buildings. Despite the risks due to the city’s ...

President Trump mentioned the deadly wildfires in Los Angeles County during his Inauguration Day speech in Washington, D.C.

Some of the factors that exacerbated the Southern California situation, Johnson said, included thick forested areas that had not been deforested in about a decade, the dry 100-mile-an-hour Santa Ana ...

MORE: Landslides are among the hazards emerging as LA-area wildfires scar terrain Here are some of ... The massive amounts of debris are going to be difficult to clean up because of the topography of ...

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods this week, killing at least 11 people ...

It is not possible to stop a fire that is wind-driven like this, with this kind of topography, from the ground," she said. "We need to be able to fly our aircraft. Our helicopters cannot fly under ...

Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow ...

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) said he’s “convinced” New Orleans is safe after a Wednesday attack that killed 15 people and injured 30 others after a man drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street.

Gas stations won’t be able to sell hemp products anymore. Laid-off workers won’t get as many unemployment benefits and Louisiana will have a new income tax rate when a slew of bills become law on Jan.