Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the allocation of $101 million in taxpayer funds for “multifamily low-income housing development” ...

California's Senate Bill 549 allows Los Angeles to buy fire-damaged lots for low-income housing. Governor Newsom allocated $101 million to support the initiative, focusing on rebuilding areas like ...

Even before the fire, most homeowners in the Palisades and on the shoreline near Malibu could no longer secure traditional insurance coverage, which meant they had to rely on the California FAIR ...

"Private insurance for natural disasters is a really broken system, and it's in serious need of repair,” said Richard Giller, partner and chair of the insurance recovery and counseling group at ...

What do we know and what can we expect six months after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires in LA County.

Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led ...

As wind-whipped fires turned the L.A.-area neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades and Altadena from sunny Southern California paradise into smoky hellscape, ... 2025 in Malibu, California.

Destruction in Altadena California. The Eaton Fire destroyed homes in Altadena California, a town northeast of Pasadena. The image was captured Jan. 8 by Maxar Technologies' shortwave infrared sensor.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last. on Jan 14, 2025. Advertisement ...

ALTADENA, Calif. — For months, the day laborers had decontaminated homes that survived the Los Angeles wildfires. Sweating in ...