Los Angeles Times19d
Opinion: How governable is Los Angeles?
Los Angeles is being investigated, pilloried and derided over the horrific loss of life and property in the 2025 fires. Certainly, Mayor Karen Bass, the City Council and the county Board of ...
Wall Street Journal20d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County. Median home values for Altadena’s Black households were $961,000 in 2023, compared with $677,700 ...
wallpaper20d
Reflections from Los Angeles: a local writer's personal account of the LA fires
For me, the 2025 Los Angeles fires state of emergency began on January 10 at 3.48 am with four loud squarks on my iPhone and an urgent message: 'be ready to evacuate.' The Palisades fire was three ...
Mansion Global20d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County ... Now it is a gray and black heap. The gazebo and a garage remain, and two cars parked in the ...
The Independent22d
Black Dahlia: the unsolved murder that transfixed Los Angeles
Betty Bersinger was walking down Norton Avenue one morning in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert ... The case of Short — nicknamed the Black Dahlia — has both horrified and gripped ...
The Atlantic22d
Los Angeles’s Ash Problem
When I saw gardeners arriving armed with leaf blowers, my heart sank. (Los Angeles County has temporarily banned their use because they throw up so much dust.) But no one knew exactly the right ...
The New York Times24d
How Los Angeles Dreams Became Kindling
Image The Los Angeles aqueduct near Sylmar. One of my neighbors, Timothy Dundon, known by his alter ego, Zeke the Sheik, had put the tragedy to rhyme. A tall man with a long gray beard ...
Scientific American24d
Here’s How Climate Change Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
As Greta Cazzaniga, a climate scientist at the ClimaMeter and the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute in France, said in a recent press statement, “the Los Angeles wildfires have shown how multiple ...
Business Insider24d
Photos show Los Angeles neighborhoods reduced to rubble as deadly wildfires continue to burn
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Parts of Los Angeles are still burning from multiple wildfires that have ravaged over 40,000 acres and killed at least 25 people. More than ...
New York Post25d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...
Los Angeles Times25d
The destruction of Altadena reverberates across Black Los Angeles
As Los Angeles communities were forced to integrate, Black residents often faced intimidation or outright violence when moving into predominantly white neighborhoods. But Altadena took a different ...
Los Angeles Daily News25d
Fires will worsen local budget conditions across Los Angeles County
As area leaders take stock of the long-term implications of this month’s Los Angeles area fires, they should consider the local government fiscal impact. Los Angeles County, the city of Los ...