ALTADENA — Retaining this community’s Black working-class roots and longtime residents — attributes which make Altadena ...

Altadena resident and filmmaker Pablo Miralles had been scheduled to debut a 20-minute documentary on Owen Brown. Miralles' ...

When the Eaton Fire erupted, the Mountain View Cemetery and Mortuary in Altadena faced a rare struggle: racing to save ...

You never expect it. As a journalist covering climate disasters and other news, I have always been on the outside, reporting ...

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...

Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting communities across Southern ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up ...

The Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, home to Butler’s final resting place, was caught in the path of the Eaton fire but sustained only “minimal damage,” according to a statement on the ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...

Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into Tuesday as the landscape remains dangerously starved of rain, and as firefighters ...

For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined loss of generational wealth and personal heirlooms is indescribable.