A blockbuster lawsuit alleging California and the City of Los Angeles failed to properly extinguish the Lachman Fire, which ...

The state’s attorney general opened an investigation into whether emergency responders failed to adequately warn the residents of a Black middle-class neighborhood that was devastated in the blaze.

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta claims “compelling evidence” has prompted him to launch an investigation into whether racial discrimination played a role in the disastrous response to the ...

One year ago this week, the Palisades Fire erupted in the hills above Los Angeles, killing a dozen people and destroying nearly 7,000 homes and businesses. It became L.A.’s worst urban wildfire ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed landmark legislation this week, ensuring that inmate firefighters receive the federal minimum hourly wage for their difficult and sometimes deadly work. But ...

NORTHEASTERN U.S. AND CANADA LATER TONIGHT. RIGHT. TAKING A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES IN STATE HISTORY THIS MONTH, IN 1991, THE OAKLAND HILLS FIRE DESTROYED THOUSANDS OF ...

California’s top prosecutor is opening a civil rights investigation into how delayed evacuations impacted a historically ...