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There’s a lot of misinformation floating around out there about homelessness in California. We use data to dispel several common myths.

Temperatures around the Lake Fire will hover around the triple digits until next week.

Heat waves have killed hundreds of Californians and cost billions of dollars in the past decade, according to a new report from the state insurance department.

The beaches have become mostly rocks and pebbles following coastal erosion as a result of heavy storms.

Actor Alec Baldwin goes to trial in New Mexico this week for involuntary manslaughter over the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Vector control exterminators will spray the area with a mosquito-killing pesticide designed to knock out the blood-sucking pests known to carry diseases.

The volunteers grew their own vegetables, maintained equipment, participated in so-called Marswalks and faced stressors.

Companies and educators are only starting to chip away at figuring out how much college credit a work skill is worth.

Father and son offer generational perspectives on a wide-range of issues, sharing their drive to understand the world — and the people — around them.

Most of SoCal is under an excessive heat warning through Thursday.

Based on city records, LAist has created the first publicly available map showing where possible fire ash and debris was reported across Orange County. Some accounts came as far as 10 miles from the epicenter at a WWII hangar.

New research into the behavior of microbes in icy soils shows twice as much planet-warming carbon could be at risk of escaping into the atmosphere.