(KOIN) — Portland’s air quality is currently comparable to Los Angeles, despite the ongoing wildfires in Southern California ... air is caused by a temperature inversion.

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 ...

Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. Southern California was bracing Monday for another round of powerful, sweeping winds in and around Los Angeles, where the landscape remains ...

The local sports community has reached out to help those impacted by the massive wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles ... to a marine layer starting Friday. But a dry weather pattern from ...

Los Angeles County ... across Southern California, the nation, Canada and Mexico have been working around the clock for over a week to help battle the flames. After days of weather alerts ...

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

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

Improving weather conditions continue to aid in the increased containment of both the Eaton and Palisades fires, with some evacuations lifted in the Palisades Fire area.

A California utility said Thursday that its equipment may have sparked a small wildfire in Los Angeles that broke out the same day as two massive blazes in the area that killed at least 29 people ...