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PacifiCorp Was Grossly Negligent in Oregon’s 2020 Wildfires. Now It’s Asking Lawmakers for Protection.
And in December, the U.S. Department of Justice added to PacifiCorp’s legal woes. The feds filed a $900 million civil lawsuit, claiming the utility’s negligence caused a different 2020 fire in ...
Rains hit SoCal for much of this week. Why it's probably not a fire killer
Back-to-back atmospheric river storms are set to hit Los Angeles County this week — giving the region much-needed moisture ahead of another potential round of Santa Ana winds.
In L.A. County, price-gouging landlords could soon face fines of $50,000
County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger, who both saw swaths of their districts decimated by fire, asked county ...
Death of CA man who claimed to be a Rothschild was an accident, coroner says
LOS ANGELES — The death of William de Rothschild — the Laurel Canyon man who neighbors said claimed to be a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family — was an accident, the L.A. County medical ...
Opinion
The most meaningful reform LA County can make post-fires is to its sprawling government
The maze of jurisdictional responsibility across Los Angeles County's many governments makes dealing with regional challenges much harder.
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Pacific Coast Highway reopens nearly a month after devastating Southern California wildfires
The Pacific Coast Highway reopened Monday morning, nearly a month after it was closed when flames from the deadly Palisades Fire ripped through hillside Los Angeles ...
Investigation launched into L.A. County’s faulty emergency alert system
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) has sent letters to L.A. County and software company Genasys requesting information on ...
LA County, struggling to supervise ‘high-risk’ probationers, pleads for help
The Probation Department’s failure to properly supervise probationers was blamed, in part, for the deaths of two El Monte ...
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California: Five dead in Los Angeles wildfires - as new blaze starts near Hollywood Hills
Meanwhile, firefighters continue to battle the Hurst Fire, to the north, now at 700 acres, while firefighters from the Los Angeles County continue ... evacuation areas. California Governor Gavin ...
Ducks come home seeking to get back to winning ways
After Thursday’s 4-1 loss in Calgary ended a three-game run behind 16 goals, the Ducks host Montreal in a Sunday matinee hoping Mason McTavish is good to play ...
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As crews clean up from LA wildfires, some residents are furious over hazardous waste
Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, ...
'We don't want to end up like California': Washington races to prevent LA-scale wildfire
The KING 5 Investigators uncover how western Washington is fighting to prevent a destructive Pacific Palisades-scale fire from sparking in the Evergreen State.