I mean, how could a city that produced films of itself destroyed by so many unusual disasters—tidal waves, ice storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, zombies, infections, sharknados, and a 50-foot-tall woman ...

Los Angeles is currently set to host the 2028 Olympics, bringing both opportunities and challenges for the city. Known for ...

Sprawling, dynamic and forever pushing the envelope, Los Angeles has always been America’s home-design dream factory.

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

A lifelong Californian pens an elegy for his burned city.

Take the “The Dude Abides” pizza, for instance. It’s a white pizza topped with mozzarella, fontina, caramelized onions, and ...

John Vaillant, author of the best-selling book Fire Weather, says the hotter our cities become, the more we must worry about ...

Fast forward to now, the aftermath of a catastrophic January day in 2025, when extreme wind fueled the hellish Eaton fire ...

The question of who is in charge is testimony to the diffusion and, at times, dysfunction that make up the core DNA of the ...

One of the two major fires that devastated this region — the Eaton fire — is not even in the city of Los Angeles; it is in an ...

Many Californians thought wildfires couldn’t reach deep into their cities. But the Los Angeles fires showed how older homes became fuel that fed the fires.

The Los Angeles fires are a soul-crushing and city-defining disaster. Callous voices have called it a city-destroying event, but they don’t know Los Angeles very well.