Parts of California and Arizona were under extreme heat warnings again Saturday while sweltering summerlike weather even stretched as far north as Nebraska just a day into spring. Temperatures at ...

With disasters more intense and more frequent, there is less time to recover and mourn. See how new technology – and new approaches to the strain – aim to help.

Earthquakes hit Aromas and The Geysers on Thursday, followed by swarm activity, highlighting ongoing seismic activity in the region.

Not a single Democrat tops 13% while the GOP contenders sit in the high teens. 16% of voters remain undecided leaving the ...

Most Americans hear "earthquake" and immediately picture California. Crumbling freeways, shaking skyscrapers, Hollywood hills on the slide. That picture is not wrong, exactly, but it is dangerously ...

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake rumbled in the South Bay on Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor struck at 6:48 a.m. and its epicenter was approximately 15 miles south of ...

Most Americans think of earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes, the news covers it, and everyone moves on. But seismologists have been quietly raising alarm bells about three fault ...

The United Nations' expert on human rights in Haiti said it has a chance now to tackle gang violence with a U.S.-initiated force starting to deploy and a prime minister committed to providing alternat ...

A man who lost his left leg after being trapped for eight hours in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti has made his nation proud. Ralf Etienne has become Haiti’s first ever Winter Paralympian ...

Eighty-eight condos could be coming to Windsor Hills after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors overruled an appeal ...

By Mariko Katsumura, John Geddie, Katya Golubkova and Nobuhiro Kubo IWAKI, Japan, March 9 (Reuters) - Takuma Hashimoto was ...