Late last month, before the rains arrived, USC professor Seth John traveled through foothill neighborhoods devastated by the Eaton Fire, gathering street dust to test for lead. Another USC professor, ...

USC researchers traveled through neighborhoods devastated by the Eaton Fire to run lead tests on ash gathered from gutters and sand pulled from playgrounds. What they found: They found a whole lot of ...

By bringing together so many people to acknowledge and honor a community’s collective pain, the Grammys showed me everyone had a place at this outsized table of grief. And it raised millions of ...

Amid rent gouging, land speculators and insurance woes, the cost of rebuilding may exceed working people’s means.

Billy Witz, a reporter on the National desk who helped cover the wildfires, reflects on a surprising link between his father and a couple who lost their home in the Eaton fire.