Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is deleting her text messages, thus defeating efforts by media organizations to obtain them as government communications subject to public records requests, according to the Los Angeles Times.
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has released the list of insurance companies that have agreed to give fire victims over 75% of coverage without making “the list” of their belongings. State Farm is not one of them.
When he arrived, HUD Secretary Scott Turner said: “I’m here, and I’m willing and able to help and to serve.” He meant it. So… was Reagan wrong?
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner announced Thursday that the Trump administration is extending a foreclosure moratorium for an additional 90 days to victims of the Los Angeles fires.
Los Angeles County officially sued utility company Southern California Edison on Wednesday, claiming that its power lines caused the spark that ignited the Eaton Fire in high winds on January 7.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner traveled to the Pacific Palisades on Wednesday evening to meet local residents and hear from them firsthand about their needs.
State Farm has chosen to ignore California State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s recommendation that all insurance companies pay 100% of personal property coverage rather than asking fire victims to itemize all contents.
A State Farm executive appeared in a video released Wednesday to say that homes should never have been built in the Pacific Palisades at all, blaming the victims of the recent Los Angeles wildfires, including State Farm’s own customers.
Billionaire Nicole Shanahan, who ran as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election, will pour millions of dollars into an effort to recall Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over her mishandling of the wildfires.
Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik has written an article celebrating the South Carolina wildfires because he believes they mean California, no longer uniquely exposed to such fires, will not face conditions on federal funds.
The Los Angeles City Council backed Mayor Karen Bass’s decision to fire L.A. Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley, voting 13-2 to affirm the firing. Crowley would have needed ten votes to be reinstated.
The New York Times reported Monday on how the local baseball little league in Pacific Palisades is helping the community stay together in the wake of the Palisades Fire, and helping children recover from the trauma of the blaze.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) declared a State of Emergency in response to more than 100 wildfires breaking out in the state that had impacted 4,200 acres.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a “state of emergency” on Saturday for brush clearance ahead of peak fire season — but months too late to save the devastated communities of Los Angeles from the Palisades and Eaton fires.
Los Angeles could recover from the Palisades and Eaton Fires by 2029 — but that is a best-case scenario, according to a new report on the regional economic impact of the disaster.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has given nearly $2.5 million in Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing (RUSH) funds to the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, as well as to the city of Houston to “assist Americans impacted by recent hurricanes and severe storms.”
Former Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley is contesting her dismissal by Mayor Karen Bass, appealing directly to the City Council to reinstate her, which it can do by a two-thirds vote (10 of 15 members).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially completed “Phase 1” of the cleanup effort in the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire in Los Angeles on Tuesday, finishing in just 28 days after President Donald Trump ordered the agency to move as quickly as possible.
Ambassador Ric Grenell said Tuesday that he had requested a meeting with the CEO of State Farm to discuss the Los Angeles fires, and the insurance company’s controversial response to the disaster.
A dispute between embattled L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Chief Recovery Officer Steve Soboroff burst into public view on Monday, when a recording emerged of a meeting in which Soboroff said she had “lied” to him about his salary.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening to withhold aid from cities that do not follow his homeless policies — while arguing at the same time that it would be wrong for the federal government to withhold aid from California.
Few insurance companies are complying with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s request that they cover 100% of the personal property lost by policy holders in the Los Angeles fires by the February 28 deadline.
Ambassador Ric Grenell, possibly the country’s most influential California conservative, floated the idea Sunday of a “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) to clean up state government there — and Elon Musk agreed.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sent a letter Friday to Congress asking for $40 billion in funding for fire relief — two weeks after signing $50 million in spending to fight the Trump administration on immigration and other policies.
Ambassador Ric Grenell, President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, says that there will be “strings” attached to federal aid to California for cleaning up after the devastating wildfires last month in Los Angeles.
State Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) has proposed legislation that would require insurance companies to cover 100% of the losses to personal property in fires without requiring customers to fill out details lists of possessions.
Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been editing out the question-and-answer (Q and A) portion of many of her press conferences, limiting exposure of reporters’ questions about her handling of the Palisades Fire disaster.
Palisadians are angry. We just aren’t showing it yet. My best advice to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in the early days after the fire would have been to stay away, for her own good.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass fired L.A. Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley on Friday, claiming that she failed to pre-deploy firefighters ahead of the Palisades Fire and refused to allow an investigation.
ABC News is reporting that the transgender community in Los Angeles was the “hardest hit” by the deadly wildfires in Los Angeles, because of “the destruction of a safe space, built with love and care to support their healing.”
No new water storage infrastructure has been built in California, more than a decade after voters approved a $7.5 billion water bond in Proposition 1 of 2014.
Los Angeles County will test the soil for contaminants after the debris of burned homes and structures is removed, stepping in where federal and state authorities have not, according to a report Wednesday by the Pasadena Star-News.
Developer Rick Caruso’s non-profit organization, Steadfast L.A., is introducing free prefabricated homes for people to live in on their property in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, and Pasadena if they cannot yet afford to rebuild.
The Los Angeles Times published text messages Wednesday between L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath that suggest Bass is failing to cooperate with other local government leaders.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Tuesday that she “wasn’t aware” of warnings about the extreme winds that led to the devastating Palisades Fire on January 7, but she posted those warnings on her official X account on January 6.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is blaming L.A. Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Kirsten Crowley — again — for they city’s failure to prepare adequately for the extreme winds that spread the Palisades Fire on January 7.
Survivors of the fearsome plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon — which, thankfully, includes everyone who was aboard the aircraft as there were no fatalities — said their plane flipped over without warning just seconds after its wheels touched the tarmac.
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara says that he is tired of being “white mansplained on how to do my job,” after facing criticism from elected representatives, including Democrats, over his recent job performance.
A former high school classmate of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has written to the L.A. Times to defend the mayor’s conduct during the Palisades Fire — which broke out when Bass was abroad at Ghana’s presidential inauguration.
Residents in the small town of Pikeville, Kentucky, are grappling with disastrous flooding as crews work to rescue their neighbors.
