A USD professor designs an innovative solution to California's housing crisis: a sustainable, fire-resistant home assembled in three days using mass timber panels.

For families impacted by wildfires, the idea of rebuilding their home can be daunting. Not only is there confusion about how ...

A disaster expert offers tips on what you should do now to prepare for an emergency and what to do first if you have to ...

Still, aggressive action at the state, county, and city levels will be needed to ensure that policies and rules are updated to provide architects and builders with clear guidance as to what will ...

They had built their house on a rugged peak in the Santa Monica Mountains to maximize the views, and now Phillip and Claire Vogt went to their bedroom window and saw fires burning in the nearby ...

AP The latest measure creates a new “ember-resistant” zone, dubbed “zone zero,” that bars things like brush, wooden fencing, furniture, sheds and mulch within 5 feet (1.5 meters) of homes.

The rules were set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023. But as Los Angeles grapples with blazes that have destroyed thousands of homes in what could be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Reeling from destructive wildfires, including the deadliest in California history, state lawmakers in 2020 passed new requirements for clearing combustible materials ...