"Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill was among the thousands who evacuated Los Angeles. Other stars, including Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal, and Rainn Wilson have lost their LA homes.

After days of uncontrolled burning, officials confirmed the first death in the Palisades Fire on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department received a missing person report on Wednesday and executed a welfare check on the home bordering the PCH.

With a another fire bursting into life on Wednesday night, Los Angeles is burning like it never has before. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass returned to the city this week after a diplomatic mission to Africa.

Wind-whipped wildfire blew through communities of every socioeconomic status and stripe, merging, psychically if not physically, into a kind of mega-catastrophe.

Even as fire turned Santa Monica an apocalyptic shade of orange, hired hands went about their business as if it were just another day on the job. "We gotta pay bills," said one UPS driver. "It's not like they're gonna pay us to stop working and leave.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced over Bluesky that its awards banquet, initially scheduled for Saturday, January 11, at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, is postponed.

Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in Los Angeles County in California, as strong Santa Ana winds stoke the blazes.

Human remains were found Wednesday night in a Malibu home destroyed by the Palisades Fire burning near the Los Angeles County coast. A missing persons report led authorities to conduct a welfare check at the home near Pacific Coast Highway and Las Flores Canyon Road.

Trial by fire.” It’s a cliché, but Los Angeles has a way of validating clichés — riots, earthquakes and fires are part of life here. One waits for locusts. More to the point: When a crisis most tests our faith and confidence,

More than 100,000 people are under evacuation orders, and the fires have consumed about 45 square miles — roughly the size of the city of San Francisco.