There's a common misconception that beneath the asphalt, Los Angeles is a desert. It isn't. It's grassland. And part of the natural cycle of the grassland ecosystem is fire. California's binary ...

Firefighters battle the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Wednesday. Wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area continued to burn mostly out of control on Thursday, with at least five blazes engulfing more ...

NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff stood outside the skeleton of his childhood home, tapping his mother’s name into his cellphone. “Mom? Look at this,” he said, panning the phone to take ...

A rare windstorm, unlike any in the past decade, whipped brush fires into unprecedented catastrophes, creating perhaps the two most destructive fires in Los Angeles County’s history, but neither ...

At least 16 people have died and more than 180,000 have been forced to evacuate as the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires burn tens of thousands of acres. Wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area ...

By Cindi Leive Grady Hendrix’s new novel, “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,” is a timely look at the mistreatment of women, with a dose of horror, monsters and magic. By Hugh Ryan A powerful ...

By Liz Moore After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet.

The Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades is currently the largest wildfire threatening L.A., and is estimated to be nearly 20,000 acres (over 31 sq mi) in size. Left: A satellite image of buildings ...

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The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves into the truths and misunderstandings about the legendary knight. The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard ...

Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha found refuge from their hardscrabble upbringings in each other — and ice skating. They became childhood sweethearts and Olympic ice dancers, but an unexpected twist ...

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