Should building permits be loosened in fire zones?
They ignored issues that affect not only California, but Texas, Idaho, Arizona and the Pacific Northwest, where homes are ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat6d
Santa Rosa wrote the playbook for the long road to recovery after 2017 Tubbs Fire. These lessons could aid Los Angeles
Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...
City Journal9d
Can We Rebuild Los Angeles?
Building a more resilient Los Angeles will require a government refocused on efficiently providing critical infrastructure ...
A world away from the Palisades and Altadena, landlords try to sell fire victims on living downtown
Landlords of downtown L.A. apartments are trying to woo displaced Palisades and Altadena fire victims to a more urban setting ...
Marketplace3d
A Los Angeles-area developer gives advice on rebuilding after the fires
Developer Waleed Delawari shares some of the lessons he's learned on what rebuilding a home might look like after the LA fires.
What Kind of Los Angeles Will Rise From the Fires?
The city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.
After fires, Los Angeles gets moonshot moment to rebuild
As Los Angeles recovers from its devastating wildfires, environmental engineers, urban planners and natural disaster experts ...
Opinion
The Los Angeles wildfires are finally contained, but Californians still aren’t safe
The smoke may be temporary, but toxic air pollution is an ever-present danger with effects that linger for generations.
Vail Daily8d
It’s likely Los Angeles-like wildfires will come to Eagle County. Here’s how local fire and water entities are preparing.
Eagle County is at risk of experiencing a large-scale wildfire. “We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh ...
Cal Fire’s predictions didn’t foresee the Altadena inferno. Now it’s changing its fire-hazard maps
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...
Fact Check: Photo from 2014 fire mislabeled as Combs’ LA mansion in 2025
A photo of an Ohio building destroyed in a 2014 fire has been shared online with false captions stating it shows Sean “Diddy” ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat12d
The Los Angeles County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...