In the year since, much has been learned about the first 24 hours of two of the most destructive wildfires in California ...

LAFD leaders engaged in campaign of secrecy and deflection designed to avoid taking full responsibility for what went wrong ...

Explore the key events in 2025 Southwest politics, from wildfires to immigration raids and congressional redistricting.

Natural disasters, immigration and a conflict between California and the federal government made political headlines across ...

There were high-profile deaths this year in the Southwest. Among them was the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative leader ...

As the Palisades fire raged, then- Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley went on a television blitz, calling out city leadership for systematically underfunding her agency.

Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pick for FDNY commissioner — the first out person to lead the department — has more than ...

Palisades residents had reason to be skeptical of the rebuilding process, given the problems that played out on Jan. 7: the failure to pre-deploy firefighters, the chaotic evacuation and the fact that ...

Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass admitted she “botched” the response to the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires in an on-camera podcast interview – but her team later demanded that the ...

In January of 2025, California’s leadership proved the wisdom of the Forest Gump axiom: The presence of moronic thinking can ...

LOS ANGELES — The botched response to the Palisades Fire is down to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ “absence and continuing negligence,” a blistering new lawsuit claims. Bass and the city also worked to ...