Beutner said city officials showed a 'failure of leadership' on the fire, which seriously damaged his house and destroyed his mother-in-law's home entirely.

Flames from the Palisades Fire were still licking the real estate around Rick Caruso’s shopping center when the developer called into his local Fox station to lay blame on Mayor Karen Bass. “There’s ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, left, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and Gov. Gavin Newsom tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades on Jan. 8, 2025, destroyed by the Palisades fire. (Eric Thayer ...

Los Angeles was forced to slash funding for the fire department after Mayor Karen Bass awarded gilded contracts to city workers, a review of public records shows. The trouble began early last year ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has ousted fire chief Kristin Crowley, blasting her response to January’s devastating wildfires, dramatically culminating weekslong blame-game between the two. The firing ...

A stone-faced Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stood silently as a British reporter asked whether she had anything to tell Angelenos as the most destructive fire in the city’s history raged. She was on ...