When the mud slid in La Conchita 13 years ago, it was the second landslide in 10 years. It came after at least 18 inches rain over 16 days and crushed the home that Metivier-Hart rented on Santa ...

La Conchita advisory On Tuesday, the sheriff’s OES issued an advisory for the La Conchita area. The hillside there could be at risk of debris flows or landslides depending on rainfall.

In 2005, two weeks of “torrential rainfall” in La Conchita in Ventura County preceded a landslide that killed 10 people, destroyed 13 homes and severely damaged 23 others, according to the ...

That essentially matches the two-week period before the 2005 landslide when 8 inches of rain fell. The two other triggers: One or more inches of rainfall per hour, and 15 inches within 30 days.

Mike Bell purchased a home in La Conchita around 40 years ago and calls it "the greatest place in the world to live." The community, just 10 blocks wide and a short drive to Carpinteria or Ventura, ...

Heavy rains can create dangerous conditions on California hillsides. Current conditions have the community of La Conchita — where a deadly landslide killed 10 in 2005 — on high alert.

A landslide that killed 10 people in La Conchita on Jan. 10, 2005 was triggered after 8 inches of rain fell over a two-week period.

LA CONCHITA, Calif. — In the surfer's paradise where Mike Bell has lived for four decades, talking about rain is blasphemy. "We have sprinkles, we have showers, we have mist, but we don't use ...

Thirteen years ago, 10 people were killed and 27 homes were destroyed when the La Conchita hillside buried the small beachside community. The last survivor of the 2005 landslide feels like she’s ...

La Conchita residents hope to weather another storm and they are counting on Hydroseeding to help. Locals say a rancher who bought the property above the town following a landslide lawsuit ...

LA CONCHITA, Calif. — The hill fell 13 years ago Wednesday. La Conchita’s eastern slope melted into a landslide that buried homes, killed 10 people and scarred the survivors.

The landslide calamity happened so quickly “nobody had a chance to do anything,” recalls said Mike Bell, La Conchita’s unofficial mayor and Harrison’s brother.