Local-government taxes and fees are taking a hit ahead of a costly rebuild. Initial shortfalls are even spreading to bond markets.

Families of color, making up over half of Altadena, have bought homes and kept them for generations. The Black home ownership rate exceeds 80%, almost double the national rate.

Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding the impacts of climate change. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has given that work new meaning.

As embers wafted overhead against a reddening sky, Adonis and Denise Jones grabbed a few belongings and left their house last week in Altadena, California, figuring firefighters battling the Eaton ...

There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California, Erion Taylor remembers. Instead, she got a text from her neighborhood group chat ...

and the California flag flying overhead disintegrated in the heat of the Eaton fire. But after briefly relocating to the nearby Crescenta Valley sheriff’s station, Altadena deputies soon ...

Chloe Garcia and her partner Giovanni Figueroa lost their home and everything they owned in the Eaton Fire that decimated Altadena, California. Now in her final trimester of pregnancy, Garcia said ...

Altadena has not yet experienced issues like these, but that might not last. California prohibits insurance companies from dropping customers in fire-struck areas for at least a year, but ...

The two-bedroom house along East Altadena Drive was purchased by William ... Black families who were able to buy property in California and then pass down those homes through generations.”

In this section of western Altadena, residents weren't ordered to evacuate until after 5 a.m., according to records reviewed by The Times. That was well after smoke and flames were threatening the area.

Community members to put their tech skills and cameras to work, creating an online map of about 15,000 homes in the Eaton Fire zone that allows users to click through to current photos of those properties.

Under mandatory evacuation, Jones and several other Altadena residents were met by yellow caution tape and National Guard and California Highway Patrol personnel. Frustrated and unable to reach ...