Here's what experts say is turning Southern California's speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying the calendar.

A wildfire whipped up by extreme winds is sweeping through a Los Angeles hillside dotted with celebrity residences.

Devastating wildfires are sweeping across Southern California hillsides.

Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the nation’s fire-suppression experts and climate change.

The National Weather Service says that around 134 million people in the U.S. are under alerts as an extremely dangerous and record-breaking heat wave broils much of the country.

A prominent climate scientist says we are going to have to get used to this.

Scientists figure a natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada.

Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought.

A new study says the West is going to get more one-two punches of nasty wildfires followed by extreme rainfall as the world warms.