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

In 2005, after widespread criticism of the response to Hurricane Katrina, Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré took charge in New Orleans.

Recovering from a disaster requires patience. And many working people — especially those whose wealth is tied up in their ...

What is at stake here is the entire mysterious history, love and disenchantment intertwined, of Americans and their cities.

Donald Trump’s approach to natural disasters is to play politics and withhold aid, while President Biden pledged to pay all ...

We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake,” writes Joy Press—“never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city.” ...

There’s a lesson there. The Santa Ana winds, Los Angeles, apocalypse — these three have always combined for a dark trinity of hope and disaster that has defined the West Coast since its ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 book of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem. "(T)he violence and the ...