Several Los Angeles-area beaches were closed Monday to swimmers and surfers after 17 million gallons of sewage spilled into Santa Monica Bay from a treatment plant.
Los Angeles County Supervisor
CHRISTOPHER WEBER, Associated Press
Firefighters were working in extreme temperatures across the U.S. West and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in California and Oregon, as another heat
SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
Earth's rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.
While NASA and a couple of
Southern California Edison said its equipment may have sparked a fast-moving wildfire that forced evacuation orders for some 100,000 people and seriously injured two firefighters on Monday as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent just such a pos