Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

Bookshelves have been replaced with food and toiletries, bins with packs of toothbrushes and other items were piled high in ...

The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...

As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ piano to Altadena’s historic Black haven to a local recovery landmark.

The first schools will reopen on Jan. 23 while the “Tier 3” schools – the most impacted – are expected to open Jan. 30.

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

I'm a natural born cynic, of course, but I can't help but think that this ceasefire, this lull in the killing, is meant to erase, if not the memory of, at least the responsibility for, the killing ...

Butler lost his home of 60 years in a fire that decimated the storied Black community of Altadena last week. The fire was one ...

Our reporter surveys fire damage in her neighborhood around Altadena and Pasadena and ponders the future of this microcosm of ...

Southern California is getting a break from the powerful ... as the Eaton Fire moves through the area on Jan. 8, 2025 in Altadena, Calif.