Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

Recovering from a disaster requires patience. And many working people — especially those whose wealth is tied up in their ...

In 2005, after widespread criticism of the response to Hurricane Katrina, Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré took charge in New Orleans.

What is at stake here is the entire mysterious history, love and disenchantment intertwined, of Americans and their cities.

We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake,” writes Joy Press—“never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city.” ...

There’s a lesson there. The Santa Ana winds, Los Angeles, apocalypse — these three have always combined for a dark trinity of hope and disaster that has defined the West Coast since its ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 ...

Victims of the Los Angeles fires, who call what has happened to their devastated and destroyed communities “apocalyptic”, may ...

Donald Trump's approach to natural disasters is to play politics and withhold aid, while President Biden pledged to pay all ...

Thomas Bach has announced that the International Olympic Committee he chairswill provide former swimmer Gary Hall Jr. with replicas of the 10 Olympic medals he won at the Atlanta 1 ...