The demands of a restaurant were never-ending, and Rena would arrive at dawn to start rolling out the biscuits. The original clientele was racially diverse and stuck around for the roast beef, Salisbury steak, sweet potato pie and banana splits.

A Little Rock-born grandmother who appeared in the movie "The Blues Brothers" died last week at her home in Altadena, Calif., as a wildfire raged through the community.

As embers wafted overhead against a reddening sky, Adonis and Denise Jones grabbed a few belongings and left their house last week in Altadena, California ... was a little further out, but ...

At age 95, there was no other way to describe Dalyce Curry, or “Momma Dee” to her large extended family, other than “fabulous.”

There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California ... “It’s a little more rural than Pasadena because you can see black bears ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — At age 95 ... she was just fabulous, period." Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1929, that big personality was destined for one place: Hollywood. She settled in Los Angeles ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did

Altadena has not yet experienced issues like these, but that might not last. California prohibits insurance companies from dropping customers in fire-struck areas for at least a year, but ...

In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages its scarce water resources.

CASTAIC, Calif. — Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 people being put under evacuation orders or warnings.

Rodney Nickerson had felt the Santa Ana winds blow through Altadena before. He'd lived there since 1968, when he bought his three-bedroom house on Alta Pine Drive with $5 down and proof that he worked as a project manager at Lockheed Martin,

A 2018 study by Rice University sociologists and the University of Pittsburgh examined counties that were hit by natural disasters. They found that even when the hazard damage was equal Black survivors’ wealth decreased by an average $27,000 while white survivors’ average wealth increased $126,000.