Noah Haggerty is an environment and science reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering wildfire in the American West. A graduate of Northeastern University, he has a background in physics research, focusing on spacecraft propulsion and fusion energy. Haggerty joined The Times in 2024 as an AAAS Mass Media Fellow.
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The California Board of Forestry approved ‘Zone Zero’ regulations outlining what residents in fire-prone areas can plant, build and store near their homes.
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L.A. County’s Department of Beaches and Harbors did not provide an estimate for when the facilities would reopen.
Officers responded early Saturday morning to a Van Nuys apartment after a man shot a woman multiple times following an argument.
A shooting at a new In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho, left a ‘very chaotic scene’ at ‘one of the busiest locations in all of Southern Idaho,’ the police chief said.
Cities across the Western U.S. set or approached daily temperature records on Saturday, as SoCal officials cautioned residents to watch for symptoms of heat illness.
At the turn of the century, wildfires destroyed only about 3% of the California homes they came into contact with. By 2020, the rate had risen to 18%, a new study found.
With a very strong El Niño almost certainly on its way, the southern U.S. could see extra precipitation this winter, damping wildfire risk next summer.