Los Angeles continues to burn. As of this writing, the Palisades Fire is spread over 23,713 acres and is 22 percent contained. This means that 22 percent of the fire’s perimeter has been controlled by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bulldozer moves into position to cut firebreaks as a hand crew descends a hillside during the Canyon fire in Castaic on Aug. 8. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, records a video during an aerial tour of a wildfire risk reduction ...

Nobody's seen a Berkeley kangaroo rat for years, but it may still be living in the chaparral ecosystems that thrive along the East Bay hills. The Mount Diablo buckwheat also seems to have disappeared, ...

Driving through Altadena today, visitors might pass a lone house—bordered on both sides by empty lots—miraculously missed by the ember storm that took its neighbors. Above, the horizon is marked by ...

The hills above Los Angeles are covered with dense, dark green brush, a unique plant community known as chaparral. In the wake of the extreme wildfires that destroyed more than 12,000 homes and ...

Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

3:38 p.m. Nov. 25, 2025: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the Cal Fire program in dispute. It is the California Vegetation Treatment Program, not the Vegetation Management ...