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

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 ...

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

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.

As residents continue returning to the Palisades and Eaton burn areas, authorities are urging them to be aware of poential health hazards and wear masks, gloves and other protective gear if they are ...

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

Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, ...

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

As crews work to clean up from the Los Angeles wildfires, city officials and residents are opposing the designation of a ...