Thousands of National Park and Forest workers are being fired as the federal government cuts back on spending.

A Southern California woman who broke barriers as one of the first Black homeowners in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood was one of the many who lost everything in the recent wildfire.

In pricey Los Angeles, where single-family homes under $1 million are lately hard to come by, even destructive fires haven’t deterred willing buyers.

Once we landed and hailed a cab outside Los Angeles International Airport, my brother and I experienced firsthand the traffic and horns of Interstate 110 and downtown Los Angeles.