A worker mans a road closure along State Street in downtown Los Altos. Photo by Emma Montalbano. A gas leak prompted the evacuation of downtown Los Altos on Monday morning, as emergency and utility ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Some L.A. County firefighters on the ground of the Eaton fire urged broader evacuations before midnight Jan. 8, ...

As Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the island nation, only a fraction of residents have headed to evacuation centers. By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Yan Zhuang Officials in Jamaica have raised concerns ...

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is a dangerous storm expected to make landfall early Tuesday morning, hitting the southern Jamaican coastline. Authorities today issued an immediate, mandatory evacuation ...

Several homes on Newport Beach’s Balboa Peninsula were under evacuation orders Thursday, Oct. 23, due to a methane gas leak believed to have been caused by oil seeping from an orphaned oil well ...

ASHEVILLE - A mandatory evacuation was lifted around 11:30 a.m. Oct. 22 after Asheville Fire Department crews responded to a gas leak at 244 Montford Ave. The leak was caused by planned water ...

Cleanup efforts were underway Wednesday across Southern California following a rare October storm that brought significant rain to the region. There had been concerns of mud flows in the burn scar ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

A heavy rainstorm, unusual for the fall, brought widespread threats of mudslides and flooding to Southern California on Tuesday, Oct. 14, along with an evacuation order for parts of one Los Angeles ...

Southern California officials lifted their evacuation warning and short-term orders Tuesday after an early-season storm pushed its way through with heavy rain, gusty winds, and slight pockets of ...

Officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for the Airport Fire burn scar and warnings for other Orange County areas on Tuesday morning as a strong Pacific storm continues to batter Southern ...