The decision was reached after consideration of school readiness, weather forecasts, current outdoor conditions and cautiously encouraging levels of fire containment, said L.A. Unified schools Supt.

With the announcement of Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams' retirement, the head of the New Hanover County NAACP ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass denied rebuffing an offer by the FDNY ... s deadly fires — even though California officials have said they don’t have enough firefighters themselves. New York ...

The Los Angeles firestorms of the past week share a crucial feature with two of the most horrific wildfires in recent American memory. The Palisades and Eaton fires may be unprecedented in some ...

Even as flames in Southern California continued to carve a destructive path on Friday and fire officials sought to ... or is this simply the new normal in an era of climate-related calamities?

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was accused in a report of rejecting an offer from the New York Fire Department to help battle deadly wildfires scorching the Golden State, but her office said it ...

When looking at acres burned, the Palisades and Eaton fires are small compared with other massive California fires. However, when you rank them by the number structures destroyed the recent fires ...

429,603 acres SCU Lightning Complex fire (2020): 396,125 acres How the current Los Angeles fires compare: The biggest of the current fires (the Palisades Fire) is only a tiny fraction of the size ...

Firefighters have been battling some of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history in recent days ... August 21, 2020. REUTERS All of the aircraft work in unison to fight the fires ...