Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…
The death toll of the wild fire in Paradise in northern California has risen to 23, making it one of the deadliest fires in the state’s history. Two people have also died in a separate fire to the south near Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and thousands of homes destroyed…
Three wildfires across California have caused massive destruction and claimed at least nine lives in the north of the state.
Nearly 200 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes and President Trump has declared a state of emergency in California, as wildfires continue to burn across the State.
Liam Dutton
California is about to enter the peak of its fire season, and state officials are concerned that it could be particularly dangerous this year, due to much of the state being in extreme drought.
Liam Dutton
Californians are breathing a sigh of relief, as much needed rain is expected to fall across the drought-hit state at the end of the week.
Liam Dutton
Last Friday, the California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency across the state, following its driest year on record.
Liam Dutton
Since late last week, an intense and dangerous heatwave has gripped the south west of the US, with California, Arizona and Nevada seeing record-breaking temperatures.
Liam Dutton
South western parts of the US are about to be gripped by an intense heat wave that could bring record breaking temperatures to some parts of Nevada, Arizona and California.
Liam Dutton
Rest assured, there aren’t going to be pineapples falling from the sky, but there will be some very wet weather affecting western coastal states of the US during the next five days.