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Returning Pacific Palisades residents were grieving not just homes turned to ash, but memories buried amid the rubble

An Australian man has been confirmed dead in the Californian fires as his heartbroken mother says there was no water to put out cinders on his home's roof.

Single-family zoning makes it practically impossible to build more housing in central L.A.

The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of “This Is Us” star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be’s newly installed crib

Critics have erroneously blamed California environmental policies and empty reservoirs for lack of water

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: With uncontrolled blazes still raging around Los Angeles, on the day it was confirmed that last year was the hottest in human history, it would be a good time for global leaders to finally take climate change seriously. But the signs are that no such Damascene…

A guide to cleaning the air in your home amid wildfires.

Officials hope improved wind conditions will allow firefighters to contain wildfires that have devastated the US city.

EXCLUSIVE: Author John Vaillant tells The Independent that human-driven climate change has created dangerous wildfire conditions and thousands of ‘climate refugees’ in the city of Los Angeles