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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass allegedly told officials to water down the findings of an after-action report into the deadly 2025 Palisades fire, despite denying she had meddled in the probe, according ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The union representing Los Angeles city firefighters began a signature-gathering campaign Thursday to place a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot to address what it calls ...

The head of the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) revealed this week that the after-action analysis of the devastating Palisades Fire was edited several times to protect leadership, a report ...

A proposal to raise Los Angeles’ sales tax by a half-cent to fund the Los Angeles Fire Department has cleared a required procedural step, allowing proponents to begin collecting signatures to place ...

The City of Los Angeles repeatedly ignored state wildfire safety regulations as it permitted new development in areas with severe fire hazards, a lawsuit filed Dec. 23 in the L.A. County Superior ...

Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass secretly altered the official Palisades Fire response report to downplay the failures made by the city and fire department when the deadly blaze erupted, a new ...