Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the conditions behind the devastating 2025 urban wildfires in Los Angeles are present in Portland, posing risk for an ...

A devastating blaze that killed 19 people and destroyed more than 9,400 buildings in Los Angeles County last year was started by electrical sparks coming off a utility company tower. The tower ...

The state risk pool was never intended to bear such risk. It was created by the California Legislature in 1968 after the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, ostensibly to curb redlining by banks, home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of homes in Altadena were destroyed after the Jan. 7, 2025, Eaton fire. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Los ...

Southern California Edison (EIX) is urging a judge not to find the company liable for property damages from a 2025 Los Angeles wildfire in part because the transmission tower where the fire allegedly ...

Edison International (EIX) jumped 3% on Tuesday after a California Superior Court judge tentatively denied a request to hold its Southern California Edison utility liable for billions of dollars in ...

Los Angeles County announced Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against State Farm General after hundreds of victims of last year’s devastating wildfires complained that their claims had been delayed, ...