Some of Orange County’s hospitals may get more time to meet the state’s earthquake safety laws. California’s Office of Statewide Hospital Planning and Development is considering a new way to assess ...

SACRAMENTO — A secretive deal between a group of hospitals seeking to weaken seismic upgrades at medical centers and an influential union looking to increase the pay of employees collapsed on Tuesday, ...

In a Sept. 12 veto message to state senators, Mr. Newsom explained his reasoning, citing the scope of the legislation. “Any extensions considered for the 2030 deadline must balance the increased risk ...

Volunteers from North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse have just arrived in the disaster zone of Turkey after devastating earthquakes left more than 20,000 dead. The volunteers are unloading an ...

Mountain Mesa, Calif.-based Kern Valley Hospital applied for a $34.5 million grant to meet a 2030 deadline that requires the hospital be “reasonably capable” of providing care following an earthquake, ...

BEIRUT — Gunmen stormed a hospital in north Syria where a baby girl is receiving care after being born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home, a hospital official said Tuesday, ...

More than 300 workers at Vanuatu's main hospital have returned to work following a spat with the Public Service Commission ...

The historic Los Angeles General Hospital, left, was replaced by a new facility, right, in 2008. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) After nearly a century of earthquake vulnerability, the process of ...

General Hospital's Chad Duell and Kate Mansi managed to (hilariously) survive an earthquake. Life can sometimes imitate art as it did recently. While there have been only two earthquakes ever on ...