Los Angeles tries leniency in a time of hostility

Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting to take a shower, do laundry, or...

Uncle Sam in Los Angeles

Trump wants to 'liberate' Los Angeles, residents say 'no thanks'

US President Donald Trump says he sent in the National Guard and Marines to 'liberate' Los Angeles from the violence of protesters, but some residents of Little Tokyo, a...

Los Angeles fires expose flawed housing policies

Tens of thousands of people in Los Angeles lost their homes to the devastating fires that raged in early January. The Eaton and Palisades fires reveal how vulnerable and...

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,...

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....

Eaton, Palisades fires 100% contained in Los Angeles: Officials

The Eaton Fire that scorched more than 14,000 acres (57 square km) east of Los Angeles has been 100% contained, fire officials said, a largely symbolic milestone more than...

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...

The $2 trillion home insurance is getting even worse

On top of the human tragedy they’re still inflicting, the Los Angeles wildfires are exposing a gap between what people thought their homes were worth and what they’ll actually...