According to Oregon and California’s fire departments, trucks were stopped in Davis, California, just outside Sacramento, for maintenance and safety checks, and those trucks continued onward. Photos ...

For nearly as long as Los Angeles has been a city ... the local oil refineries and brickyards poured so much sun-dimming smog into the sky that people thought they were experiencing an unpredicted ...

LOS ANGELES — Disaster is in the air ... outside the critically threatened areas are unnaturally quiet. The usual smog overhead has been replaced by a haze more tinged and ominous.

Reps. Laura Friedman, D-Burbank, and Judy Chu, D-Pasadena, were joined by Reps. Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, and George ...

For places that are located near vegetation, as many parts of Los Angeles are, the fire risk can be high. “In the Southern California urban areas…we see a highly dense, large urban area ...