While there has been a growing crisis in insurance for years, the scale and scope of the Los Angeles wildfires brings the issue to a new level, challenging us to ask new questions about how, where and what we build in a changing climate.

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

The home of Marketplace host David Brancaccio was one of nearly 17,000 buildings destroyed last month in the Los Angeles fires. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with him about the challenges and costs of rebuilding.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

Trevor Noah and dozens of music’s greatest artists toned down the self-celebration and focused the 2025 Grammys on helping Los Angeles rise from ashes. “As usual we’re coming to you live from Los Angeles,

The devastating fires that destroyed tens of thousands of structures and left at least 29 dead were central to the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.

A study by UCLA, published on Jan. 15, showed that 85% of individuals employed as household workers in Los Angeles are Latino. And, among these individuals, 47% are self-employed, making them ineligible for unemployment benefits or formal protections such as paid leave.