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A slightly warmer day on tap, with highs in the mid 70s and blustery conditions.
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Emergency alerts can save your life, but January's fires in L.A. highlighted the limits of cellphone warnings.
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Temperatures are expected to gradually ease through Friday.
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The positions include hotshot crews, helicopter teams, and dispatchers, to name a few.
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Ports across the U.S., including one in Northern California, were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is canceling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
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The South Coast Air Quality Management District has launched their new GO ZERO program.
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Risk of thunderstorms and showers are still present.
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The weather’s been a little different lately, with humidity, isolated rain and wind gusts throughout much of Southern California. What’s causing the late-summer bout of gray?
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Northeast L.A County is under a flood watch as threat of showers and thunderstorms looms.
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As tempting as it is (for some) to jump into the Pacific on a hot day, you might want to think twice: Rip currents are forecasted through this evening.
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The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.
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Unspent funds from the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act could be at risk as the Trump administration claws back federal dollars and targets California and climate projects.
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The administration wants to rescind a decades-old rule that protects nearly 60 million acres of forested lands.
The Interior Department released its plan to open up federal waters off California’s coast to oil drilling, setting up a direct confrontation with Sacramento on energy and climate change.
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Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back.
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Saturday was record breaking. Sunday's going to more of the same, with temperatures cooling around Tuesday.
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As nights warm and droughts intensify, past models predicting fire behavior have become unreliable. So California is working with analysts and tapping into new technology to figure out how to attack wildfires. Gleaned from military satellites, drones and infrared mapping, the information is spat out in real-time and triaged by a fire behavior analyst.
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Looking for Family-Friendly Volunteer Opportunities in Los Angeles? Check Out These Outdoor Options.From native garden cleanups to harvesting surplus produce, here are 10 kid-friendly volunteer opportunities that will get you and your family outside.
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It's one of four fires burning in the area.
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Forecast for Death Valley: 127 on Saturday, 129 on Sunday.
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Relatively few people use the city's "augmented" cooling centers.
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The new forecast was released Thursday.
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The National Weather Service is launching a new extreme heat scale to better convey the dangers of extreme heat in a changing climate.
