Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has offered a mind-boggling excuse for being 7,500 miles away in Ghana as her city was ...

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Back-to-back atmospheric river storms are set to hit Los Angeles County this week — giving the region much-needed moisture ...

They also made the blazes fit a pattern. Fires driven by Santa Ana winds, the infamous gusts that howl in over the mountains to the city’s north, account for about 90 percent of the area burned ...

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County authorities reported more than 120 outdoor fires last month – at least double that of any other January in the past ...

Now entirely contained, the Los Angeles County fires should not be allowed to fade into the history books, chalked up to yet ...

WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY AS ANOTHER SANTA ANA PATTERN DEVELOPS. GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND PEAK OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY MORNING.

Answer: The Santa Ana winds have everything to do with weather. It starts with a high-pressure area over the Great Basin. That’s a huge area, spanning much of Nevada, Utah and parts of ...

Jon Keeley, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

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 ...