‘A mountain to climb’: Family that lost Palisades home faces the aftermath
Frank Smiley, a longtime writer and producer for Conan O’Brien, lost his home to the Palisades fire Tuesday. Now, like thousands of victims of the devastating Los Angeles County fires,…
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What We Know About the California Wildfires
Follow continuing coverage of the wildfires in Southern California. The wildfires burning in and around Los Angeles have razed neighborhoods, killed at least 24 people and forced desperate evacuations. The…
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Wildfire relief: L.A. teams donate $8 million; set Friday supply distributions
Los Angeles sports teams committed $8 million toward wildfire relief and announced three events to provide supplies to those affected by the fires, the teams said Monday. The events —…
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Biden Will Deliver Final Foreign Policy Speech on Monday
President Biden kicked off his final week in office on Monday with a robust defense of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech that America had grown stronger on his…
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Stuart Spencer dead: Strategist launched Ronald Reagan’s political career
Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern political…
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Elon Musk Sends Cybertrucks to Aid L.A. Wildfires After Criticism of Response
Elon Musk has a history of involving himself, often controversially, in crises. In recent years, the billionaire has promised to fund fixes to contaminated water at homes in Flint, Mich.,…
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L.A. fires: Most serious warning issued for a battered, weary region
The most serious red flag fire weather warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties starting before dawn Tuesday, underlining the…
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RFK Jr. Would ‘Significantly Undermine’ Public Health, a Group of Experts Says
A new national coalition of health professionals and scientists, mobilizing to oppose Senate confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the United States’ next health secretary, released a public…
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L.A. fire victims: Stories of those lost in the Palisades, Eaton fires
Los Angeles awoke on the morning of Jan. 7 unaware that the city and the people within it were about to change forever. The most destructive fires in the city’s…
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A Close Brush With Loss for a Community That Knows It Well
John Ward and his wife, Dawn Holder, were already packed and ready to go on Tuesday afternoon. The fire was then a 30-minute drive away, in the Pacific Palisades, and…
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Students flee UCLA campus next to Palisades fire evacuation zone
The 46,000-student UCLA campus — adjacent to Palisades fire evacuation zones — is on edge and has all but emptied out amid poor air quality and a university decision to…
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Newsom Suspends State Environmental Rules for Rebuilding After Fires
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a broad executive order that aims to make it easier to rebuild after the fires by suspending California’s costly and time-consuming environmental review process for…
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Private firefighters in place to protect Rick Caruso’s Palisades home and neighborhood
A firetruck, non-potable-water trucks and about a dozen private firefighters were stationed outside Rick Caruso’s home in Pacific Palisades on Sunday afternoon. The firefighters said they represented five different private…
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‘Will Pay Any Amount:’ Private Firefighters Are in Demand in L.A.
Monument Street, which cuts through the center of Pacific Palisades, tells two starkly different stories of the fire that has engulfed the community. On one side, lots where multimillion-dollar houses…
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Officials investigating whether SCE equipment ignited Hurst fire
Fire agencies are investigating whether downed Southern California Edison utility equipment played a role in igniting the Hurst fire near Sylmar, company officials said. The company issued a report Friday…
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Palisades Lost – The New York Times
This weekend was supposed to be an ordinary one in Pacific Palisades. Boy Scout Troop 223 was planning a weekend camp-out at Malibu Creek. The local youth baseball tryouts were…
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Burglary suspects dressed as firefighters arrested in L.A. fire zone
Los Angeles authorities said they arrested 29 more people overnight in the fire zones, including one burglary suspect who was allegedly dressed as a firefighter. Of the arrests, 25 people…
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Federal Court Blocks Transfer of Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq
A federal judge on Saturday temporarily prevented the U.S. government from transferring a disabled prisoner to Iraq from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, while the judge considered the prisoner’s…
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Firefighters Battle to Keep Palisades Blaze From Pushing Into Mandeville Canyon
Fire officials battling the Palisades blaze, the largest in the Los Angeles area, said late Saturday that they had made progress, managing to stop the fire from pushing downhill into…
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Commentary: Wildfires come with the wildness that draws us to Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a topographical wonderland. Mountains loom in the distance. Hillsides and canyons are the refuge of hikers and dog-walkers. Beaches and bluffs above the coastline beckon. Into this…
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