The reported costs of the LA fires are staggering

Augusto Gonzalez-Bonorino, Tribune News Service Destroyed homes, soaring insurance premiums and forest management costs put the price of the Los Angeles fires in the hundreds of billions of dollars....

Los Angeles can lean on other cities to prevent fires

Jonathan S. Blake and Joe Mathews, Tribune News Service As Los Angeles burned, firefighters from near and far rushed to our city. Crews from all over California; from Texas,...

In aftermath of fires LA needs someone to lead

Two horrific wildfires, four rebuilding committees and three or four consultants (so far) into 2025, Southern California got word that an atmospheric river was headed our way. When you...

Catastrophic Los Angeles fire hits family wealth

Don Lee and Andrew Khouri, Tribune News Service It took a decade of scrimping and saving for the Ramirez sisters to buy their first house, a fixer-upper in Altadena....

Water ‘solution’ to fight California fires is inadequate

A Trump administration executive order framed as a way to help Southern California fight future wildfires won’t get more water in the hands of local firefighters, and will mostly...

This California city lost thousands of homes to fire

The sky above their newly built homes was clear, and the ground beneath their feet reassuringly soggy from recent winter rains. But as residents in the Coffey Park neighbourhood...

Altadena fire destroys house of one who helps homeless

His job, for more than a decade, has been to steer homeless people into housing. Last week, social worker Anthony Ruffin lost his home. On Monday morning, still reeling...

An advice from a man who lost everything in a wildfire

Mark Z. Barabak, Tribune News Service Jeff Okrepkie wants to make one thing perfectly clear. Yes, his home burned to the ground after he fled a galloping wall of...

The ruins

The California wildfires are not ‘natural disasters’

California is burning — again. This time, in the middle of January, scorching homes in one of the wealthiest regions in the world. Flames are threatening Hollywood landmarks, devouring...