Four months after a devastating fire scorched the Santa Monica mountains above Pacific Palisades, wildlife are returning to the area, as green shoots draw herbivores back into the blackened hills and silted canyons.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon complained of the Democrats’ bureaucratic “blue tape” plaguing the Southern California post-fire rebuilding efforts, claiming the left-wing officials in control want “more and more and more regulations.”
Some residents and contractors feel that a well-intentioned ordinance may actually slow debris removal rather than accelerating it.
Developer Rick Caruso warned Wednesday that Los Angeles is at the “tipping point” of failure in the effort to recover from the Palisades Fire, adding that the private sector should be given a greater role in the recovery.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) could never be elected president because of his failures on the costly, unfinished high-speed rail project and wildfires in his state.
Developer and philanthropist Rick Caruso called on Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to fire L.A. Department of Water and Power (LAWDP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on Monday, citing failure to maintain a key reservoir.
Survivors of the Eaton Fire in Altadena and Pasadena have organized protests against State Farm, the largest home insurer in the state, for allegedly “lowballing” estimates of damage.
Israel managed to contain one of the largest wildfires in the country’s history this week without losing any structures to the blaze — unlike California, which saw tens of thousands of structures destroyed in January.
Wildfires that began on Wednesday morning and that have burned more than 5,000 acres in Israel have “miraculously” left homes untouched, according to Israeli firefighting authorities.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) joined the battle against a series of wildfires near Jerusalem on Wednesday as high winds drove the blazes toward major roads and population centers, with people forced to evacuate.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is asking the federal government for nearly $40 billion in fire relief — while suing and attacking the Trump administration — and he believes the aid will be without conditions.
Newsom’s celebration is actually an indictment of his own administration. There is no excuse for a state with so much money, and so much talent, to be run so poorly.
A man has been arrested for aggravated arson in connection with the raging wildfire in New Jersey, according to authorities.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) celebrated Wednesday as his state became the world’s fourth-largest economy — albeit one that cannot fix homelessness or protect its citizens from devastating wildfires.
State and local authorities failed to clear the local brush ahead of the devastating Palisades Fire– L.A. is still sending notices to owners of destroyed properties to clear their own.
Watching Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s “State of the City” speech Monday, one would have no idea that anything had gone wrong.
Mayor Karen Bass tried to strike an upbeat tone as she delivered the bad news Monday in her “State of the City” speech, cutting 400 civilian jobs in the L.A. Police Department next year.
State Farm, the insurance company most exposed to the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, announced Friday that it had agreed to pay out 65% of the value of personal property claims before requiring itemization.
Survivors of the Eaton Fire, which torched its way through Altadena and parts of Pasadena in January, have called out State Farm for alleged mishandling of insurance claims.
A report from the interim fire chief of Los Angeles says that the city spends more on homelessness than it does on firefighters — and that the homeless start nearly one-third of fires to which the department responds.
A group of a dozen residents of Pacific Palisades and Malibu are suing Los Angeles, and specifically the L.A. Department of Water and Power (LADWP), for negligence in the recent wildfires that destroyed their homes.
A representative of Hagerty Consulting was stumped last week when asked by leaders within the Pacific Palisades about what his company is actually doing to help the community recover from recent wildfires.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law that will spend $181 million on fire prevention in the state — and $2.8 billion on Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid provider, whose costs have ballooned thanks to his decision to cover illegal aliens.
Developer Rick Caruso, who is leading a nonprofit initiative to rebuild areas affected by recent wildfires in Los Angeles, said Monday that the Measure ULA tax on property transactions has resulted in reduced revenue for the city.
Steve Soboroff, whom Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass named as “Chief Recovery Officer” after the devastating recent wildfires, left his post on Thursday after being sidelined by the city — and blasted the recovery effort on his way out.
J.J. Redick, the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, joined Mayor Karen Bass and property developer Rick Caruso — two political rivals — on Thursday to launch a private-public partnership to rebuild recreation facilities destroyed by fire.
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara failed to show up Tuesday at a hearing he himself had demanded into State Farm’s proposed 22% rate hike for home insurance in the wake of the recent wildfires in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County has hired a consulting firm associated with anti-Trump retied general Stanley McChrystal to handle public engagement about the rebuilding effort after recent wildfires — rather than simply listening to the public.
The Trump administration has raised logging quotas 25% in America’s national forests as part of a bid to increase timber production in the face of tariffs — and to prevent fires by removing fuel and creating firebreaks.
Jake Rakov, a former staffer for Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), has launched a primary challenge against his former boss, exploiting the ruins of the Palisades Fire in a campaign video that says Sherman isn’t fighting hard enough.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) can claim to have done something to help rebuilding efforts in the Pacific Palisades — finally — after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) agreed to expand debris cleanup.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is pushing a “green” agenda in the effort to rebuild the Pacific Palisades, offering faster permits for those residents who agree to build “all-electric” homes when they rebuild, rather than using natural gas.
South Korea suffered more than a dozen major wildfires over the weekend. The fires killed 24 people, forced 27,000 to evacuate, and burned more than 17,000 hectares of land.
A lawsuit filed Monday claims that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is to blame for at least some of the damage in the Palisades Fire due to a power line that allegedly sparked a second blaze during the event.
Members of the Los Angeles City Council voiced their frustrations on Tuesday after learning that the city had only issued four building permits since the Palisades Fire — while paying $10 million to Hagerty Consulting for a “report.”
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has traveled extensively, including to overseas destinations, at taxpayer expense — and not always with a clear work purpose, according to an investigative report by KGO-7.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) told Breitbart News on Thursday that any new fire aid for California should include a “Special Master” to make sure that funding is spent the way that Congress intends.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received 270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent L.A. fires — though only abut 13,000 homes were destroyed.
The City of Los Angeles is bracing for layoffs of thousands of municipal employees due to a budget crisis that is said to be “inevitable,” as the city is reeling from recent wildfires and still preparing to host the 2028 Summer Olympics.
Conservative radio legend Michael Savage told California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week that President Donald Trump should appoint a “special master” to oversee federal funding for fire relief aid for California due to mismanagement.
