Rumbling bulldozers and front-loaders have started scraping up the ash, charred wood and crumbled bricks and concrete left from thousands...
Articles by Ellen Knickmeyer
Firefighters battled roughly 10 wind-whipped fires across Northern California’s wine country early Monday, triggering a rush by residents to flee...
Bad design and construction of the tallest U.S. dam a half-century ago and inadequate state and federal oversight since then...
Late in the afternoon of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory Honea was at the emergency operations center for the tallest dam...
California is not just fighting nature as it attempts to repair the nation’s tallest dam, badly damaged last month by...
Environmental activists and local government officials warned more than a decade ago about the risk of catastrophic flooding below a...
The parents of a 20-year-old college student who died in the arms of her boyfriend in Oakland’s deadly warehouse fire...
The founder of a ramshackle Oakland artists’ colony where dozens of people burned to death saw himself as a kind...
Lodge managers and cafe owners along California’s dramatic Big Sur coast were looking at a summer of jittery guests and...
California Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a campaign to extend some of the most ambitious climate-change programs in the country...