Senate Republicans are working to eliminate the environmental regulations they believe led to the carnage of the January Los Angeles fires.

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

Wildfire smoke rises beyond homes near Castaic Lake as another California ... little or no experience with wildfires are living in fire-risk areas. Wildland areas also tend to have fewer evacuation ...

Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Friday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic a day earlier.

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

That means the entire freeway will be closed in both directions between Grapevine Road and state Route 126 due to ... HUGHES FIRE burning towards Castaic, fire being pushed by winds gusting ...

The fire, burning near Castaic near Santa Clarita, was first reported around 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, and exploded in size thanks to strong Santa Ana winds, prompting evacuation orders and ...

The community of Castaic, in the northwest of LA ... A plume of smoke from the new Hughes fire is seen behind the California State Route 14 highway from Santa Clarita. Picture: AFP The brush ...

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation warnings.