When hills are healthy, vegetation anchors soil in place. But when that vegetation is burned off, hillsides become vulnerable to erosion, and slopes can come crashing down.

(Nika Chen / Daily Trojan) Los Angeles is a city ... is the signature piece “Temperature Check.” It is a painting of harsh waves with layered images of a crane hook and a red, burning palm tree. On ...

Southern California will get drenched Thursday after an atmospheric river made its way into the region. With possible mud and ...

It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...

A new atmospheric river will bring a new rainstorm to the Los Angeles area in the middle of the week, forecasters say.

Our landscape practice, led by Katherine Harvey, has always understood that urban design is an act of collective imagination.

As California prepares for heavy rain in areas recently burned by wildfires, the first of three storms expected in the US this week impacted communities from the Ohio Valley east to New Jersey.

A monster rainstorm was drenching southern California on Thursday, with officials in Los Angeles readying for flooding and ...

The upcoming storm will be the “most significant” so far this winter in Southern California, Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, warned Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A flash flood watch has been issued as the brunt of a potentially dangerous storm that could drop nearly 5 inches of rain in charred foothills moves into Southern California ...

Southern California finally received some much-needed ... According to the National Weather Service, more than an inch of rain fell in parts of Los Angeles over a three-day span, triggering flash ...

A study led by NASA and NOAA has found that California is sinking in some areas, which means the projected sea level rise for ...