Los Angeles could have to rebuild over 30% of the city. California has fires, earthquakes ... through local building codes rather than specific FEMA standards. The Cost to Make a Building Fire ...

To the editor: While there is a need to upgrade the building codes to more fire-resistant practices, the kind of tilt-up concrete buildings ... the city or county of Los Angeles or any other ...

Nonetheless, experts in urban development, climate change and housing said Los Angeles has a chance to think outside the box.

Explore the impact of wildfires on architecture: fire safety codes, materials, and innovative suppression technologies for ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...

A portion of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County is slipping toward the Pacific Ocean as much as 4 inches per ...

Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...

If the air quality is bad, stay inside as much as possible and close all windows, doors and vents," the California ... building completely engulfed in fire, crumbles and falls. Los Angeles ...

Stucco, a cement material, is a common exterior for Southern California houses and it's fire-resistant. Reviewing AP photographs showing buildings still standing, Arnold Tarling, who has four decades ...