Federal and state officials say the temporary sites for processing hazardous waste pose no threat, but residents are worried about their air and water.

Many fire victims are eager to clear their home sites and move on to rebuilding. The big question is when.

A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

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 city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.

The Palisades and Eaton fires, two of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history, reached 100 percent containment more than three weeks after they began.

Alexandra Berzon, an investigative reporter who lives in Los Angeles, reflects on her family’s evacuation from the Eaton fire.

For many residents, a set of wheels is an extension of their home, a key to their income or a source of priceless memories.

The Tubbs fire in 2017 wiped out more than 5,000 structures in a Northern California county. Homeowners faced challenges, but hundreds were able to rebuild within two years.

More than a week after the wildfires ignited, the hazy numbness described by many looks a lot like grieving.

Health hazards from soot and smoke blown indoors onto furniture and walls can linger for months, researchers say: “Wind will get through every crack.”

“There were too many houses to protect, and not enough engines,” one fire captain in Los Angeles said. Though fire officials say they were well-prepared and simply overwhelmed by the elements, questions are being raised about whether the intensity of modern fires requires a new playbook.

Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?

Aurielle Hall knew she had little time to get herself and her daughter out of Altadena. Convincing Aunt Cheri would be a different challenge.

Artists who lived and worked in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades are worrying about irreplaceable losses, and their livelihoods.

At least 16 people have been reported dead in fires raging across Los Angeles. Five lived near each other in a ravaged Altadena neighborhood.

After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.