Los Angeles County keeps building in hillisides and canyons even as the fire risk worsen. For a century, the lure of ...

Before the wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes, Altadena was already debating a tense question: should new housing be ...

destroying more than 9,400 homes and buildings, the community had already been debating a fateful question: are there places too risky for new housing to be built? Like so many communities ...

Under Los Angeles County's new plan, development would be limited in the foothills of Altadena, where the wildfire risk is highest. Her family had opposed the new zoning plan because they felt it ...