Connor Sheets

The 136th Rose Parade is set to kick off at 8 a.m. PST on New Year's Day and roll along 5.5 miles of Pasadena streets before an anticipated crowd of hundreds of thousands.

A mother and her son, a UCLA freshman, fought to save their house in Pacific Palisades, using a hose to keep the flames at bay while hundreds of their neighbors' homes burned.

Ten confirmed deaths and more than 9,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed and more than 150,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders. Law enforcement sources told The Times that it's likely many of the small fires will turn out to have been the work of arson.

Owners of homes in Pacific Palisades say they are frustrated that they have been barred from returning to fetch belongings amid reports of looting and concerns about additional fires that threaten the remaining properties left standing.

County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation, according to new

Diego Wallraff was attending a retreat in India when his apartment building in Pacific Palisades burned down last week.

Cal Fire elected not to fund millions of dollars in Wildfire Prevention Grants over the last four years for areas that were destroyed by the Palisades fire, state records show.

Two weeks after Raven Edgar began living in a homeless shelter on Skid Row, she ended up back on the streets.

Pacific Palisades natives Gabe Wachtel and Colin Enzer joined with friends to start a GoFundMe the day after the Palisades fire started.

It was a typical sunny Sunday afternoon in Santa Monica, with scores of people enjoying the beach, having brunch and walking their dogs.