California is home to some of the world's most prestigious universities, making the choice of where to study a daunting task.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern California.

In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for that day in the region. That’s extremely low.

Dry vegetation helped fuel the fires that spread through the Los Angeles area, burning tens of thousands of acres.

While the end to the fire danger is not yet in sight, experts say the hazards that will remain in its wake will be severe.

a professor of civil engineering at the University of Southern California who has studied how urban fires exacerbate post-fire related hazards, told ABC News. The further away from wildland ...

Experts explain why Southern California is experiencing its most devastating winter wildfires in decades and what this could mean for the future of fire seasons.

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires in Southern California, experts say.

a professor of civil engineering at the University of Southern California who has studied how urban fires exacerbate post-fire related hazards, told ABC News. The further away from wildland ...

California high school girls basketball season has passed the midway point and High School on SI continues to roll out its weekly computer rankings for the CIF Southern Section. SBLive's formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method.

School administrators called the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, Jan. 13, after a 15-year-old girl told them an unknown man was inside the girls locker room at Newbury Park High School in Thousand Oaks, deputies said in a Jan. 15 news release. While he was there, she said he “committed a lewd act” in front of her, deputies said.

William Deverell, a professor of American history at the University of Southern California, said the region was cheerfully marketed as having “an unusually harmonious relationship with nature ...