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Private firefighters join battle against Los Angeles wildfires
When devastating wildfires erupted across Los Angeles County this week, David Torgerson’s team of firefighters went…
Paradise lost along Pacific Coast Highway
Everyone knows California is disaster-prone, but there’s a familiar logic to the calamitous geography in this…
How Hollywood workers are grappling with the Southern California fires
As the market for documentaries and other content slowed and work dried up in Hollywood, producer…
The 2025 L.A. fires could worsen California’s insurance crisis
When raging wildfires tore through Pacific Palisades and other local communities this week, they not only…
As disaster raged around them, hired hands kept working to pay the bills
As an enormous plume of dark gray smoke rose hundreds of feet from the nearby Palisades…
California issues landmark rules to improve home insurance market
Landmark regulations intended to encourage insurers to write more policies in risky wildfire neighborhoods through the…
Farmers Insurance expands home coverage, saying market improved
Farmers Insurance plans to increase the number of homeowners insurance policies it will write and begin…
U.S. economic growth remains impressive. It’s the envy of the world, except at home
WASHINGTON — The last and most consequential report on the nation’s economic health before next week’s election…