The fires in California continue to devastate. All the while, players from the University of Southern California came into Champaign to play the Illini, while also trying to keep the focus on basketball as areas around their campus burn.

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with devastating fire damage.

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Social media users angry at State Farm's decision to cancel hundreds of policies in California last year are rallying around the figure of Luigi Mangione.

In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for that day in the region. That’s extremely low.

Firefighters in Southern California have been conducting more fierce wildfire fights as crews race to contain and extinguish several fires that broke out on Wednesday and Thursday.

Trump is taking aim at water supplies for an endangered fish, but scientists say he’s missing the point. It’s one of California’s thorniest problems. The nation’s most populous state is full of sprawling cities, vast farmland, rich ecosystems — and it must decide how to divide scarce water resources among them.

While the end to the fire danger is not yet in sight, experts say the hazards that will remain in its wake will be severe.

The 2024-25 California high school girls basketball season rolls on and High School on SI continues to crank out its weekly computer rankings for the CIF Southern Section. SBLive's formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method.

Reconstructing fire-ravaged neighborhoods in their former image could make residents sitting ducks for future blazes, experts say.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Evacuation orders were lifted Thursday for tens of thousands as firefighters with air support slowed the spread of a huge wildfire churning through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles, but new blazes erupted in San Diego County, briefly triggering more evacuations.

The fire threat remains critical in Southern California, where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday as fire crews battled the out-of-control Hughes Fire near Castaic, a suburb in the foothills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County.