Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted last week and roared across the Los Angeles area.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 27 people. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires continue to burn in California today. Here are the latest updates.

A heartbreaking homecoming. Mel Gibson visited the rubble of his $14.5 million Malibu mansion Wednesday, one week after it burned down in the Palisades Fire. The actor, 69, was escorted through his neighborhood in a firetruck and then surveyed the damage done to his home of 15 years.

Stars, including Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal, and Milo Ventimiglia were mourning the loss of their homes and possessions in LA's devastating fires.

A third of eastern Malibu has been destroyed by the blaze, including the communities of Big Rock and Carbon Mesa and a famed stretch of Pacific Coast Highway, officials said.

Times reporter James Rainey ventured back to see if his childhood home in Malibu was still standing, while he reflected on 'Old World Malibu.'

As firefighters continue to work toward containing the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, Eater reached out to restaurant operators across the area to understand how they are contending with the scope of the tragedy,

When your neighborhood is destroyed by fire, what do you take with you? What do you leave behind? And how do you face the future?

Malibu Mayor Doug Stewart says the fire wiped out nearly one-third of the city, including historic homes along the Pacific Coast Highway. Stewart says hundreds of homes have been lost and even more damaged, dislocating a large part of the community.

More than 20 people have died across the Los Angeles area. Officials have said the true death toll isn't known as the fires continue to burn.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s.

Coverage of the fires ravaging Altadena, Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, including stories about the devastation, issues firefighters faced and the weather.