Before the wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes, Altadena was already debating a tense question: should new housing be ...

California’s insurer of last resort reported that claims now are high enough to trigger “reinsurance” payments from back-up providers.

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

The California infernos were baptism by fire in Washington politics for Reps. Luz Rivas, George Whitesides and Laura Friedman.

Feller, who served as an instructor pilot for the D.C. National Guard, said he had several rules for new pilots to avoid such ...