Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene in the Los Angeles area over the last week has become heartbreakingly familiar — people on the run and watching ...

Here's the thing about American suburbs: they were supposed to represent success. Those sprawling houses with soaring ceilings and too many bathrooms symbolized the dream. Now, something unexpected is ...

The bill for Clovis’s explosive, unshackled growth has come due. One guess who’s being asked to pay. “What kind of place do we want to live in?” Clovis Mayor Lynne Ashbeck asked Monday evening before ...

To the editor: It’s disappointing to read that we’re still not done bulldozing farmland to make room for sprawling suburban development in L.A. County. With food prices rapidly outpacing inflation, ...

The 20 finalists in a competition to reimagine the suburbs have been announced, and the ideas scan a wide range: From pie-in-the-sky to why-isn’t-this-happening now. Which is why two entries in the ...

Cities need clear limits and targets on urban sprawl to understand whether planning tools like greenbelts and denser ...

During my long career as a pediatrician, I have seen firsthand the result of suburban sprawl. Pushing residential neighborhoods into ecologically fragile wildlife areas encourages epidemics and ...

Many Floridians follow the mantra that any growth is good growth. After all, new suburban development and strip shopping centers bring an influx of construction jobs and short-term revenue to often ...

The scene in the Los Angeles area over the last week has become heartbreakingly familiar — people on the run and watching helplessly as unrelenting flames destroy homes and whole neighborhoods.