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Firefighters Extinguish Blaze in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park
The park is home to the Griffith Observatory, the Greek Theatre, the Los Angeles Zoo and the Hollywood Sign.
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First Responders Get the Star Treatment at Chateau Marmont
Plus, Matthew Perry’s Palisades home miraculously survives and a burning AI Oscar fools Isabella Rossellini.
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L.A. Realtors to the Rescue: “I’m a Public Servant Now”
The city’s A-list brokers are ignoring old rivalries and working round the clock to house the city’s displaced elite.
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Fire Escape: Where Hollywood Is Taking Shelter
From Palm Springs to the Peninsula Hotel, here’s where celebrities and industry insiders are hunkering down to evade the flames.
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This Just In: TV News Still Matters
The L.A. fires have put old-fashioned broadcast reportage back in the spotlight, with both national correspondents — like NBC’s Jacob Soboroff — and a slew of local newscasters proving that legacy media isn’t over just yet.
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What Fire Wants: Understanding the Enemy
What long has been considered merely a chemical reaction perhaps is best compared to another all-too-familiar scourge — a virus.
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L.A.’s Now in a Doom Era. It’ll Boom Again
History reminds us that this town eventually flips the script on its apocalyptic storyline.
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Scenes From Hollywood’s Own Disaster Epic: “Sometimes, Words Fail”
Portraits of decimation, heroism and loss from the most destructive wildfires in U.S. history.
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David Lynch Fans Flock to L.A. Landmark Bob’s Big Boy to Pay Homage to Late Filmmaker: “It’s An Extra Gut Punch”
With the city still reeling from the destruction and loss from the wildfires, local Lynch devotees paid homage to the writer-director with coffee and milkshakes at his favorite Burbank diner.
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When Even Indiana Jones Is a Climate Refugee
Stars escaping the L.A. wildfires prove that the climate crisis cuts across class lines. But their celebrity can be a double-edged sword.
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Postcard From the Edge: L.A. in the Line of Fire
It’s too soon to know how the region — and the industry — might recover. But nothing will be as it was, and solidarity is the only defense against the next disaster.
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What We Lost in the Fires
Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ piano to Altadena’s historic Black haven to a local recovery landmark.
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What We Saved in the Fires
Industry denizens who lost their homes reveal a deeply personal possession they raced to rescue — from Joan Rivers’ Emmy to an irreplaceable totem of rock history to a herd of horses — in the harried moments before they fled.
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After Wildfires, Local Prosecutors Crack Down on Price Gouging in Housing Market
L.A. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto says she’s already evaluating 650 complaints.
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PGA Golf Tournament Won’t Be Held at Riviera Country Club Because of L.A. Wildfires
The Genesis Invitational, scheduled for Feb. 10-16 and hosted by Tiger Woods, is moving elsewhere “out of respect for the unfolding situation.”
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Hollywood TV Writer Morenike Balogun Was Reeling From the Writers Strike. Then She Lost Her Home in the Palisades Fire.
Balogun and her husband had been building their dream home with "saved pennies" when the blaze burnt it down last week.
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