The county is still a long way from its goal of reducing response times to 30 minutes on average, so it is exploring ways to ...

The Los Angeles Times will host a screening and Q&A session Wednesday night featuring the cast of “On Call,” a half-hour ...

Ethnic Media Collaborative symposium in Los Angeles last week, panelists pointed to gaps in the current mental health care ...

After the gaffe, the county said it was working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate why “echoes” of the alert kept going ...

Members of Congress launched an investigation Monday into Los Angeles County’s emergency alert system after delayed electronic warnings were blamed for the loss of life during the Eaton Fire.

With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the ...

Several organizations throughout various locations are lending a helping hand to those affected by the wildfires. LA Downtown News will continually update this list online.

ANOTHER BIG WILDFIRE IS BURNING RIGHT NOW IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THIS FIRE RACING ... look at where major wildfires are burning in Los Angeles County and where evacuation zones are located.

as well as other fires that erupted in Southern California over the last few weeks, like the Sunset Fire, the Hurst Fire, the Auto Fire and the Lidia Fire. 6:03 p.m. PT: The Los Angeles County ...

The fire in northwestern L.A. County spread swiftly ... Conor Dougherty covers California’s housing crisis and reported from Los Angeles. Donna and Bob Williamson call the strange souvenirs ...

That night, a local bookstore and mediation space held a ceremony to “call in the rain for a ... my heart sank. (Los Angeles County has temporarily banned their use because they throw up so ...

Another similarity between Los Angeles and Durango is that both share difficulty in getting fire insurance. Some insurers have pulled out of California ... are a wakeup call to everyone living ...