Authorities are in a standoff with a man who barricaded himself an apartment in LA's Florence neighborhood on Wednesday.

In the aftermath of this year's catastrophic fires, architects and urban planners begin to consider how to rebuild.

A fire at a metal clad building near downtown Los Angeles was quickly knocked down Tuesday by Los Angeles Fire Department ...

With a boost from nonprofits, the city and county of Los Angeles are getting free AI permitting software. Will it speed up ...

LOS ANGELES — Nearly four months ... LA issued its first building permit nearly two months after the fires started. It took more than seven months before the first building permit was issued ...

Some 17,000 homes, businesses and other structures burned to the ground in the Jan. 7 fires. It’s uncertain how much will be ...

The Center for Community Progress says that research has “consistently shown” that abandoned and unkept properties lead to a ...

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A vacant home in Hollywood that has been set on fire numerous times went up in flames again ...

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara adopted an administrative law judge's recommendation Tuesday and granted State Farm ...

The immense sea of regulations in Los Angeles and California is no doubt a contributor to the fact that the city has approved a grand total of six building permits four months after the fires started.

After Los Angeles suffered some of the most devastating wildfires in the city’s fire-prone history earlier this year, there ...