The City of Asheville has a new website — ashevillerecovers.org — a source of information and news about all things recovery.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - The City of Lake Charles has provided an update on the West Prien Lake Road Widening Project.

The Safety Action Plan is being developed to eliminate fatal and severe crashes on local roadways and is being coordinated ...

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

These updated hazard zones are part of Cal Fire's "Phase 4" recommendations, focusing on fire severity across Southern ...

The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. These maps are intended to “drive local planning decisions, not insurance decisions." ...

2007-2011 Fire Hazard Severity Zones Once the hazard zone maps are released by the state, local jurisdictions can adopt them or amend them by increasing the hazard level for particular areas.

Cal Fire explains these maps function similarly to flood zone maps, "where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area being inundated by floodwaters, and not ...

New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County. Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield.