Funded in 2021, the Watch Duty wildfire alert application has grown from covering three California counties to covering 1,400 ...

There was no school at all for three weeks while staff hunted for classroom space at other locations. Eventually they brought in portables and launched an ambitious fundraising campaign to pay for a ...

In Sonoma County in 2017, residents could choose a ... Discussions from those meetings also led to the city creating a "resilient" zone for fire-damaged areas, with reduced planning and design ...

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Adrienne Heinz knows firsthand what it’s like to flee a fire zone — and what it takes for a community to rebuild afterward. The Healdsburg resident evacuated her home as the 2017 Tubbs Fire tore ...

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...

Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...

The second peak of an ongoing atmospheric river storm arrived in Northern California Monday afternoon, prompting flood ...

Watch Duty’s success raises questions about why citizen-led tech is outpacing government emergency response efforts. The company’s co-founder explores the lessons agencies can learn from this ...

The atmospheric river storm hitting Northern California is set to bring heavy rain to the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, potentially triggering flooding. In the mountains, the National Weather ...