It’ll be a while before Los Angeles can fully assess the damage to its schools from this recent spate of fires, but a few ...

The blazes that began on Jan. 7 charred thousands of buildings, cars and electronics across the Los Angeles area, creating ...

Despite ongoing cleanup and restoration efforts following the Palisades Fire, a portion of the Pacific Coast Highway reopened ...

Initial location: Los Angeles County, Calif. Hughes Postfire Baer initially started 5:59 a.m. Feb. 1 in Los Angeles County.

From 40 school districts in Sonoma County to 88 cities in Los Angeles County, California likes local control — even if they ...

Even some attorneys are alarmed by the swarm of law firms pitching their services to vulnerable victims who have lost homes ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 5:38 a.m. in Los Angeles County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. There is ...

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...

Hailey Branson-Potts is a Metro reporter who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2011. She reports on a wide range of issues and people, with a special focus on communities along the coast. She grew up in ...

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Officials across the Los Angeles area had plenty of warning that a deadly confluence of wind and drought was coming. A bad fire was likely. Did they do enough to get ready?