USC’s Alijah Arenas recounts harrowing escape from Cybertruck
When Alijah Arenas opened his eyes, minutes after his Tesla Cybertruck struck a tree one morning this past April, the five-star Chatsworth High hoops phenom…
Who Will Keep the Liberal Flame, if Not Breyer? : Supreme Court: We need a jurist with a passion for justice, not another technocrat.
Stephen Reinhardt is a judge on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. This is intended as a personal appeal to a…
California leaders say sweeping DOGE cuts will make wildfires worse
HOPLAND, Calif. — On a sun-kissed hillside in remote Northern California, I watched in awe as a crackling fire I’d helped ignite engulfed a hillside covered…
Newsom says Trump purposely ‘fanned the flames’ of L.A. protests
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday night accused President Trump of intentionally fanning the flames of the Los Angeles protests and “pulling a military dragnet across”…
Trump wants L.A. to set itself on fire. Let’s rebel smarter
Well, what did you expect?When la migra raids workplaces and tries to enter schools and is vowing to do even more, L.A. ain’t going to…
Emergency management officials not to blame for west Altadena alert failures, sources say
The Los Angeles County emergency management officials responsible for sending evacuation alerts were not instructed to notify west Altadena residents until long after the Eaton…
The Bangles recall their ’80s explosion in memoir ‘Eternal Flame’
On the Shelf Eternal Flame Da Capo, 416 pages, $27.90If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org,…
LAFD could have had at least 10 engines patrolling Palisades hills, former chiefs say
The first 911 call came at 10:29 a.m., from a resident of Piedra Morada Drive in Pacific Palisades. Amid high winds, a fire was visible…
The start of the Palisades and Eaton fires: The 24 hours that changed Los Angeles County
As the sun rose on Jan. 8, the sky orange from ash and smoke, Angelenos anxiously waited for news about the extent of the damage…
This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came
After flames leveled nearly 500 homes in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had a reckoning over firefighting.By 1964, city leaders had added 13…
Kings’ five-game winning streak ends in loss to Calgary
CALGARY, Canada — Jonathan Huberdeau scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period and Dustin Wolf stopped 31 shots as the Calgary Flames beat the…
‘Are you OK?’ L.A. is being inundated with messages asking if we’re safe
Questions abound around the wildfires still burning their way across Los Angeles, obliterating entire neighborhoods with an unfathomable speed and ferocity. What started the fires?…
UCLA women’s basketball team copes with uncertainty during fire threat
Like many Angelenos, the UCLA women’s basketball team is dealing with the catastrophic toll of the massive wildfires this week — a firestorm inching perilously…
As L.A. fires raged, water drop videos became sweet revenge
Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Super Scooper water drop!The most memorable battle scenes exist in the pivot…
Under sea and over land, the Paris Paralympics flame is lit
Two weeks after French star swimmer Léon Marchand extinguished the Olympic flame to close the Paris Olympics, the spotlight is now on its Paralympic counterpart.British…