Decades ago, Mayor Karen Bass admitted she knew little about California water policy, so she set out to learn. President ...

Ms. Bass, a longtime state and federal lawmaker, was seen as a pragmatic leader before the fires. But many Los Angeles ...

That is a terrible idea, full stop. Lawmakers shouldn’t use the fires as an excuse to slow down on clean energy — not when scientists say humanity must slash emissions much faster to keep the climate ...

Bass will push the limits of partisanship in Los Angeles and let us know once and for all how much city residents are willing ...

All the talk about attaching conditions to California’s federal disaster aid have placed the state’s Republican members of Congress in a quandary.

Do they fight for unconditional fight for wildfire victims in their home state? Or fall in line behind President Trump?

The president arrived in Los Angeles promising to provide federal funding to rebuild after a week in which Republicans ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) shamed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for teasing the idea of only providing aid to California with conditions, while “Americans are hurting right now.” As of ...

As local voters say they have lost confidence in the mayor, a presidential visit gave her a platform to plead her case. Then ...

On the first week of Donald Trump's second presidency, we report from Washington, D.C., and the frontlines of fire damage in ...

Rain and cooler temperatures will bring relief to Southern California this weekend, after a prolonged stretch of dry, breezy ...