Fire recovery czar will work free after criticism over $500,000 salary
Faced with fierce criticism over her chief wildfire recovery officer’s planned salary of $500,000 for 90 days of work, Los ...
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Sharing what we lost in L.A.’s fires
The scars left behind — charred hillsides, entire neighborhoods like checkerboards of ash and rubble — reveal only a fraction ...
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US Federal Election Commission chair says Trump tried to fire her illegally todayheadline
U.S. Federal Election Commission Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub said on Thursday she received a letter from President Donald Trump ...
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Southern California Edison says its equipment may have sparked a small wildfire that broke out the same day two other blazes ravaged thousands of Los Angeles homes todayheadline
SCE said it was reviewing a video that purports to show “flashes” of electrical arcing from a tower near where ...
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Southern California Edison equipment likely caused Hurst fire in Sylmar, report says
Southern California Edison reported to state regulators Thursday that its equipment likely sparked the Hurst fire that burned nearly 800 ...
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Allstate expects $1.1 billion in losses from Los Angeles fires
Allstate said this week that it expects to lose $1.1 billion due to the Los Angeles fires, making it the ...
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Column: Slow the spread of fire? ‘We have to get rid of the palm trees’
Kathryn Barger’s mother used to tell her that “trees do make a community.”But given the flammability of Southern California, which ...
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Will Rogers State Beach parking lot to be processing site for Palisades fire debris
A Will Rogers State Beach parking lot will be used as a temporary processing site for debris from the Palisades ...
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California water systems need backup power, lawmaker says
It’s been more than seven years since fire hydrants in southern Ventura County rapidly ran dry as the Thomas fire ...
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L.A. city attorney sues mega real estate firm for alleged price gouging
Los Angeles City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto has sued the apartment behemoth Blueground US Inc., alleging the provider of furnished ...
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