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

In 2005, after widespread criticism of the response to Hurricane Katrina, Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré took charge in New Orleans.

Recovering from a disaster requires patience. And many working people — especially those whose wealth is tied up in their ...

What is at stake here is the entire mysterious history, love and disenchantment intertwined, of Americans and their cities.

On Sunday afternoon, I ventured behind the LAPD, LAFD, and National Guard lines to visit this embattled town, including my ...

Donald Trump’s approach to natural disasters is to play politics and withhold aid, while President Biden pledged to pay all ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 ...

There’s a lesson there. The Santa Ana winds, Los Angeles, apocalypse — these three have always combined for a dark trinity of hope and disaster that has defined the West Coast since its ...

Thomas Bach has announced that the International Olympic Committee he chairswill provide former swimmer Gary Hall Jr. with replicas of the 10 Olympic medals he won at the Atlanta 1 ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 book of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem. "(T)he violence and the ...