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 ...

Los Angeles Times reporter Colleen Shalby takes a look at Altadena, a city hit heavily by the fires but also, her hometown.

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Bernadette Murphy grew up near Altadena, where the California wildfires are hitting hardest. Her son lives in Altadena and was told to evacuate his home.

How the victims rebuild their lives will now depend largely on California’s beleaguered home insurance market. Unlike many fire victims in other parts of the L.A. area, the Quintons and many of their neighbors had been able to maintain their insurance policies in the leadup to the fire,

ALTADENA, Calif. — Maral Nazarian has been waking at night thinking about what she could have saved. Family passports. Important files. The toddler art of her two grown daughters. The 59-year ...

The Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up again this week, making the Palisades and Eaton fires, among others, more difficult to contain as they continue to rage in Southern California.

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 Palisades and Eaton fires, along with other smaller blazes, have spread in just days across nearly 40,000 acres. Flames have been fanned by a fierce windstorm known as the Santa Ana winds, which could return early next week, meteorologists warn.

Meteorologists said there was a chance the winds would be as severe as those that fueled the Palisades and Eaton fires, but that different locations would likely be affected.

Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have erased that legacy.

When asked what was the best place for lunch in Altadena, I often recommended Fox’s Restaurant on north Lake Avenue. Their elevated take on the BLT — stacked with roasted