Mobility challenges, medical needs and failed alerts left many older residents trapped when flames spread and smoke billowed as the Eaton and Palisades fires tore through Southern California last year ...

A fire dubbed the Grand Fire is burning in Chino Hills, California, on Wednesday prompting an emergency response and people ...

The proposal aims to address the gap between what insurance is paying, and what it actually costs to rebuild.

As California heads into another potentially dangerous wildfire season, local, state and federal agencies gathered in Sonoma ...

Whether fire or earthquake, mudslide or drought, natural disaster is an inextricable part of the California experience. And just as it upended Francis’s life, disaster threatens to snarl the next ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's disaster chief quietly retired in late December amid criticism over the state's indecisive stance on whether soil testing was necessary to protect survivors of the Eaton ...

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KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KERO) — Survivors of wildfires and other natural disasters in California can receive up to $100,000 in free mortgage relief through the state's Cal Assist Mortgage Relief Program.

Cal OES Director Nancy Ward, far left, attends a news conference with L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and Gov. Gavin Newsom in February, as work began to remove debris from the Eaton fire in ...