While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large ...

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are suing the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power, alleging that the ...

Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure ...

In late January 2024, after a series of rainstorms, a DWP property manager spotted a tear in the reservoir’s floating cover, ...

Authorities would eventually urge people to exit their cars and leave on foot, and then used a bulldozer to clear away abandoned vehicles and make way for fire crews. Despite the timing of the order, ...

Pacific Palisades, the Los Angeles neighborhood that's been devastated by the Palisades Fire, is emblematic of the insurance nightmare increasingly facing homeowners residing in regions prone to ...

The fires in Los Angeles are almost out. Residents are starting to trickle back into their burned-out neighborhoods. When they get to their houses, they face a series of almost impossible questions: ...

The Palisades Fire began at around 10:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Jan. 7, burning on the west side of Los Angeles County, including the Pacific Palisades and Malibu. The deadly Eaton fire ...

Reporters, editors, photographers, and data experts working across formats and teams secured four exclusives during the ...

President Trump toured the wildfire devastation in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, pledging to work with Gavin Newsom, the state's Democratic governor, to address recovery efforts. "We want to ...

Jan. 8, 1:25 p.m. PSTThe Palisades Fire in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades—an affluent coastal neighborhood—exploded to 15,832 acres, according to Cal Fire, making it the largest fire of the ...