When hills are healthy, vegetation can anchor the soil in place. But when that is burned off, hillsides become vulnerable to ...

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being done to prepare for storms?

Days after an atmospheric river brought record-setting rainfall to California, the state is in the crosshairs of another ...

Even before the rains, rockslides loosed by the wildfire had tumbled onto the road. Experts had warned toxic mudslides posed ...

The second in a pair of back-to-back storm systems moved over the Southland overnight and continued into the early morning hours Friday, leading to wet roads, a mudslide on Pacific Coast Highway and ...

A mudslide occurred overnight on Pacific Coast Highway just north of Big Rock Drive, covering all lanes of the roadway — ...

The California Department of Transportation on Monday announced closures in Topanga Canyon, cautioning drivers that “the recent fires increased risk of mudslides, flash floods and debris flows.” ...

President Donald Trump regals House Republicans with a rhetorical highlight reel from his first week in office, and urges them to support his immigration crackdown and border security proposals. “We ...

Mudflows prompted the closures of at least some roads, including in Topanga Canyon and on parts of the Pacific Coast Highway.

In 2018, bursts of intense rainfall in burn-scar areas from the Thomas fire, which burned 281,893 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara County, triggered a catastrophic mudslide in Montecito that ...