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

Contractors test soil samples for contaminants like lead or mercury and remove tainted soil. If a section still tests high, ...

Initial location: Los Angeles County, Calif. Hughes Postfire Baer initially started today at 5:59 a.m. in Los Angeles County. The burned area emergency response has been active for seven hours. A crew ...

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?

The Probation Department’s failure to properly supervise probationers was blamed, in part, for the deaths of two El Monte police officers in 2022.

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.

Those include higher rates of employment in industries requiring a physical presence, higher exposure to air pollution and ...

A No-Burn Day notice was in place for residents in the South Coast Air Basin in California over the weekend, with air quality ...

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

The 23-page document details what measures the supervisors will support and what they’ll oppose in Washington and Sacramento.