Giannini built on this good will, turning his baby bank into San Francisco’s biggest, branching out across California and ...

An earthquake shook a remote area of the Mojave Desert near Boron and Barstow on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. Here's what we know.

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...

On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, braved the cold to visit the ...

To better understand when a big earthquake is coming, there are earthquake monitoring stations across the state in remote ...

Shrinking church attendance. Closing congregations. Minister shortages. Post-COVID upheaval. All those factors contributed to ...

The Los Gatos Town Council at its Tuesday meeting voted to set aside $1 million for emergency management efforts in the wake ...

Insurance providers could charge policyholders a “supplemental fee” if the state’s insurer of last resort runs out of money.

Even for homeowners outside of California, worsening extreme weather means higher insurance rates. In part because of ...

The sighting of the fish, also referred to as the 'catastrophe fish', has heightened fears of potential natural disasters among the locals ...

Fans of "natural building" techniques, like the cob used by Pedersen, see need and opportunity. Adobe bricks made of clay, ...