When catastrophe strikes, its victims understandably want to know how and why — but their curiosity often morphs into snap judgments and witch hunts by those with ulterior motives. The horribly ...

AM Santa Monica Police Department officers responded to the intersection of Ocean Ave and California Ave in response to a call of a hit-and-run of a department employee. Northbound California toward ...

Los Angeles seethes with the collective trauma of a metro area of millions buffeted about by hurricane-force winds that began last week. People whose lives and livelihoods were swallowed by an ...

While authorities still don't know what sparked the deadly fires in the Los Angeles area, they do know one clear way the flames have spread: embers. At least 24 people have died in the fires that have ...

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to ...

The high winds responsible for the firestorm consuming much of Los Angeles County remain dangerous to residents long after the flames have been extinguished as they can spread toxic ash and dust far ...

High winds have been a key ingredient of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, and after a brief lull at the end of last week they are forecast to intensify through the middle of this week. That's ...

As Los Angeles prepared for another dangerous wind event, law enforcement officials issued strong warnings this week that criminal behavior targeting wildfire victims would not be tolerated. On Monday ...