The average cost of a homeowners policy has risen more than 30% since 2020. Despite rising costs, you can still find ways to ...

Mark Shterenberg, who instilled in his family his core values of hard work and a good education, worked at JPL and Hughes Aircraft. He was 80.

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Researchers say that long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution, particularly wildfire smoke, is linked to dementia.

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Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human ...

Nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire forced Claire Robinson to flee her Altadena home, she returned, donning a white hazmat ...

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Russian ice-skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the plane that ...

A massive search operation is underway after a passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, ...

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