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.

After a tour of areas damaged by the California wildfires, the president sparred with local leaders and blamed them for a wide variety of issues affecting the disaster response.

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.

A writer from Los Angeles surveys the loss.

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

For many service workers, a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood represented an economic lifeline that the fires have now severed.

In the hills above Pacific Palisades, there is crime scene tape and scattered debris, clues to what may have caused the initial fire that eventually raged through thousands of structures.

Kellen Browning, a reporter based in San Francisco who has been covering the wildfires, was getting requests from evacuees, and he had a decision to make.

Hiring a private fire crew costs thousands of dollars a day, and most work through government contracts or with insurance companies. Some wealthy property owners are calling them in directly.

Los Angeles seemed like paradise. Who could have imagined where it would lead?

California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, and President-elect Donald J. Trump have long feuded. Can the rancor be set aside to help a devastated city recover?

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

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

With so many people displaced and looking for rentals, the region’s housing options could grow even scarcer and more expensive.