LA City attorney investigating 900 price-gouging complaints following wildfires
With thousands of people displaced by the Palisades and Eaton fires, the office has every division working on gouging claims.
Supervisor Kathryn Barger: Taking action a month on from the Eaton fire
Kathryn Barger is chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and represents Altadena.
Los Angeles sheriff deputy found guilty of excessive force in arrest of woman caught on video
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who was recorded violently tackling and pepper-spraying a woman while she filmed a man ...
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What We Can Learn From Octavia Butler in Times of Chaos
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted ...
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Black-owned Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena becomes resource hub for fire evacuees
After realizing her business survived the Eaton Fire, Nikki High, opened her bookstore’s shelfs for donations and offered ...
What’s that smell? Readers share the scents that remind them of L.A.
From wafting tar pits and smells of the beach to native plants and a chocolate factory, our readers smelled Los Angeles and ...
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Altadena fire victims committed to saving area’s Black identity
ALTADENA — Retaining this community’s Black working-class roots and longtime residents — attributes which make Altadena ...
The New Yorker5d
Lessons for the End of the World
And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...
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California: Five dead in Los Angeles wildfires - as new blaze starts near Hollywood Hills
At least five people have died in a wildfire in Los Angeles, officials have said, with firefighters now facing new blazes, including one in the city's famous Hollywood Hills. With firefighters ...
Author's story of coping after a wildfire resonates with community affected by latest LA-area fires
Learning from Silence," a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.
Altadena’s Black population was shrinking even before the fires. What happens next?
According to a UCLA study, Black residents in Altadena were more likely to have their homes damaged or destroyed by the Eaton ...