Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

Dr. Barbara Ferrer said residents should assess their homes for soot, ash and smoke contamination before settling back in.

This interactive map gives you up-to-the-minute air quality updates and health recommendations for communities across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties—including the ...

Toxics in the air from urban wildfires may include dioxins, asbestos, and lead. But testing, until recently, for these air ...

Wildfires like those in Los Angeles that destroy urban structures release toxic chemicals, including lead, into the air.

Days before an environmental justice conference at Loyola Marymount University, federal workers withdrew their participation, ...

But the fact that many farmworkers labored through the smoke of the Los Angeles fires underscores the limitations of ...

The percentage of wildfire-associated emergency department encounters increased with onset of the Los Angeles County ...

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly eyeing a new home in Los Angeles — very close to where her ex-husband Ben Affleck currently lives.

More than $1 billion in federal EPA funding awarded to California-based agencies and organizations to accelerate the ...

"This is our Hurricane Katrina—an epochal disaster that's changing Los Angeles," said Dr. David Eisenman, whose research ...