Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

John Hope Bryant writes about how the solutions—creative, bold, and compassionate—to this devastating crisis are in our hands ...

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted last week and roared across the Los ...

The Santa Barbara Film Festival announced its lineup and partnership with Direct Relief to help raise funds for L.A. wildfire relief.

A year-old clip of a plane crashing near the Chilean city of Talca has resurfaced online in connection to firefighting ...

Days of extreme and unusual heat preceded Chile’s wildfires in February of 2024. Temperatures soared to the upper 30s – more ...

David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated director of films including "Eraserhead," "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive," and co-creator of the cult drama series "Twin Peaks," has died. He was 78.

A post on X purports to show GoPro footage of firefighters fighting wildfires currently ravaging Los Angeles. Verdict: False ...

Al Jazeera posted a similar clip showing the crash in January 2024, predating the California wildfires by a year.

The article noted that the video was from Chile and not Los Angeles, as claimed. We, then, ran relevant keyword searches and ...

The only way to tame this fire, to get (firefighters) on the ground in there, was to use the large assets and the helicopters ...