Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman, LA County Sheriff Robert Luna and lawmakers are expected to announce ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna and lawmakers are expected to announce legislation they are proposing to toughen laws against looting and ...

The 10,000-acre Hughes Fire near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic, which sent thousands fleeing this week, was more than 95% contained Sunday with all mandatory evacuation orders lifted.

Advocates and experts say the fires should serve as a wake-up call for a broader rethink, contributor Patrick Sisson reports. Today on CityLab: What LA’s Fires Mean for the City’s Housing Shortage ...

At 1:55 a.m. on Thursday, the Los Angeles City Fire Department announced that it had stopped all forward progress of the fire at about 40 acres and lifted the evacuation warning. Evacuation orders ...

Opinion:My heart breaks as Los Angeles burns. But where are the city's leaders? Homeowners and renters who lost homes in the Eaton Fire are suing Southern California Edison. In several lawsuits ...

As wildfires wreaked devastation across Los Angeles, the city official in charge of the fire department was out of the picture – placed on administrative leave in December while he remains under ...

“Did the City of Los Angeles fail you ... from paramedic to engineer to fire inspector. “Unlike a lot of her male colleagues, she has promoted through the ranks,” Ho said.

Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s fire chief, Kristin M. Crowley, identified “one significant area of weakness” in her department’s ability to ...

A Democrat on the LA City Council is slamming “chronic under-investment” in basic services and fire prevention — even as Mayor Karen Bass has funneled money to providing drug addicts with ...

At Cal Fire, only two — count ’em, two! — workers made overtime in excess of $200,000. In the city’s Los Angeles Fire Department, more than 50 times as many workers —101 — made more ...

Now, as Los Angeles reels under an extended onslaught of wind-driven wildfire, its fire chief is being buffeted by challenges in and outside her ranks, tension with City Hall and questions about ...