What Kind of Los Angeles Will Rise From the Fires?
Will a different city emerge from the Los Angeles fires? Time and again fires have fast-tracked urban change. London after the Great Fire of 1666 rewrote its safety laws, widened…
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water
The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role in California’s complex water management operations and…
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water
The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role in California’s complex water management operations and…
Hollywood Work Was Already Drying Up. Then the Fires Hit.
“Is this our get-out-of-jail-free card?,” the cinematographer Gabriel Patay, 40, said he wondered after he and his wife, a documentary producer, lost the home they spent nine years restoring. “We…
In Visit to Pacific Palisades, Trump Praises Firefighters and Blames Democratic Officials
President Trump repeated falsehoods about California’s firefighting efforts on Friday and blamed Democratic officials for a wide variety of issues affecting the response to wildfires as he toured areas of…
Trump and Newsom Promise to Work Together on California Wildfire Relief
After nearly two weeks of cross-country jousting, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California waited alone Friday at the bottom of the steps outside Air Force One to greet President Trump as…
Trump Expected to Visit Los Angeles on Friday
President Trump was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Friday to visit communities that have been affected by the recent fires, his first presidential visit to a state from…
From Fires to Mudslides, Catastrophe Has Defined Newsom’s Tenure
Gov. Gavin Newsom came into office in 2018 confronting one of the deadliest and most destructive fires in the state’s history: the Camp fire. Even before he was sworn in,…
In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree.
President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state’s Democrats have stubbornly refused…
California Withdraws Some Requests for Tighter Climate Rules
California has withdrawn requests that the Biden administration allow the state to enact limits on pollution from trucks, locomotives and ferries that are more strict than federal standards, on the…