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A self-described “recovering engineer,” a teacher and others have served as San Mateo County’s Poet Laureate — and now, the city is looking for someone new to fill the role.The deadline to apply to become the city’s poet laureate has …

The Disaster Recovery Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next several weeks.

An agreement for the sale of the Regional Medical Center in Santa Clara County has been reached following months of concern about the area losing important trauma services.  On Monday, the county announced an agreement to purchase Regional Medical Center …

Avery Colvert, 14, wanted to do something special for teen girls like her schoolmates in Altadena whose lives have been upended by the fires.

Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in extra firefighters to the level that they had during some similar weather events in the past, according to internal predeployment memos reviewed by The Times.

L.A. City Council passes a series of actions to address wildfire responses and recovery.

Victims of the Los Angeles County firestorms looking to rebuild their lives arrived at the FEMA disaster recovery center in Pasadena.

On Tuesday, Biden signed proclamations designating a monument in Southern California's desert and another near the Oregon border.

The fund will probably consist of private donations that could be used to cover a range of expenses, including moving costs and wage reimbursements.

Award-winning performer-composer-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ’s Stanford Live “Harps of Asia” concerts with three renowned Asian zither masters this week represent the culmination of a 20-year dream. Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ & Blood Moon Orchestra’s two performances on Jan. 17 in Stanford's …

Fire largely destroyed Palisades Elementary and Marquez Elementary. Each school has been relocated in its entirety to a different LAUSD campus.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has ordered city departments to expedite debris removal and permitting for rebuilding property owners.

Officials are warning of windblown ash and other pollutants from Los Angeles-area fires and say air quality readers won't pick up on the ash pollutants.

Bass has faced widespread outrage over her whereabouts after returning to Los Angeles from Ghana on Wednesday, 24 hours after fires ignited

In the wake of devastating fires, the Los Angeles City Council is looking to ban evictions for unauthorized tenants and pets, citing people who have welcomed the displaced into their rental homes.

SAN JOSE HAS begun temporarily banning RVs in designated areas across the city this week.Under a $3.3 million pilot program, Oversized and Lived-In Vehicle Enforcement (OLIVE), the city has chosen 30 temporary tow-away zones to clear RVs for street sweeping …

A squadron of firefighting aircraft and convenient water supplies were key in saving Brentwood and Encino from the growing Palisades fire last weekend.

L.A. City Council members have called on the Department of Water and Power to examine why fire hydrants lost water pressure in last week's epic firefight, and why a reservoir was offline.

David Robertson, conducting the world premiere of John Adams’ piano concerto “After the Fall” in Davies Symphony Hall this week, is taken by how the esteemed Bay Area composer was influenced by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson’s interpretations of Bach’s music. …

Neighbors looked to this 24-year-old Altadena weather guy for local forecasts. In the Eaton fire, he saved lives.