Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — Scenes from the worst 24 hours in the history of Los Angeles … Four fires transform into massive flamethrowers, fueled by 99 mph Santa Ana winds. They engulf three football ...

BBC reporter David Willis says he has never witnessed a disaster in Los Angeles so widespread and so unpredictable.

The oracles of risk foresaw an apocalypse in Los Angeles’s future. So they raised my home insurance premium by nearly 18 percent, even though I haven’t made a single claim in the quarter ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...

Perhaps the aspect that’s most unique isn’t any of the specifics, but the overall vibe that we’re living in an apocalyptic age, particularly in Los Angeles: the pandemic, the strikes ...

As Los Angeles recovers from its devastating wildfires, environmental engineers, urban planners and natural disaster experts ...

This time five wildfires broke out at once in Los Angeles County that is home to about 9.7 million people. The fire has already consumed more than 14,000 hectares. The most severe fire is in the ...

The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” The weather here, she continues, “is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse.” Didion and Butler are just two of the many ...

“Hell, it must be like Los Angeles,” reads the poem “Contemplating Hell,” by Bertolt Brecht. The Marxist German playwright was largely critiquing the city’s culture. Yet in recent ...