"Los Angeles has always been a boom town," wrote one of California's preeminent historians, Carey McWilliams, as local ...

John Hope Bryant writes about how the solutions—creative, bold, and compassionate—to this devastating crisis are in our hands ...

More than a week after Los Angeles’ devastating fires began, the losses to the region’s rich architectural legacy are becoming clearer. The fires have already destroyed more of the county’s built ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have erased that legacy.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the ...

Industry denizens who lost their homes reveal a deeply personal possession they raced to rescue — from Joan Rivers’ Emmy to an irreplaceable totem of rock history to a herd of horses — in the harried ...

I have friends who lost houses. I have family who were burned out of their home. Los Angeles has lost churches, synagogues, ...

A recent swing from wet to dry is among the most extreme on record, priming much of Southern California for wind-whipped fires.

Sandra Tsing Loh is an American writer, actress, radio personality, and former professor of art at the University of ...

David Lynch, the American filmmaker, writer and artist who scored best director Oscar nominations for "Blue Velvet," "The ...