This post was updated Feb. 6 at 6:57 p.m. Sleep slips away on nights when the Santa Ana winds arrive. The rosebush thorns ...

Amid the unthinkable losses from L.A.'s unprecedented disaster, there were also small miracles and harbingers of hope across ...

“Anything can happen” during a Santa Ana event, Raymond Chandler wrote in his 1938 short story Red Wind. Chandler’s bailiwick was the crime genre, and the Santa Ana winds were an augur of physical ...

Pretty much everything about the human interaction with Los Angeles has brought us a war with nature we seem no longer to be able to win.

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide.

geographic realities of steep canyons that accelerate Santa Ana winds in deadly ways and the human realities of a growing population squeezing itself against and into high-risk landscapes all ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... John Fante (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

When the fires started in Los Angeles last week, owner Bill Buerge - who has spent more than 30 years restoring and revitalising the Mermaid - says he did not even consider evacuating, even though ...