Next-door neighbors lost their near-identical homes in a California wildfire, but how they are navigating rebuilding is a ...

One proposed trailer bill that would help deaf Californians, while quite innocuous in its effect, has an interesting and seamy backstory.

The California program was created to protect urban neighborhoods. Now it’s become an incentive to build in fire-prone areas.

The nation’s growing home insurance crisis is in the spotlight as California homeowners begin the long road to rebuilding ...

It was a grueling routine. For months after their home burned down in the 2021 Caldor Fire, Jennifer McKim-Hibbard and her husband would wake up and call the California FAIR Plan. They would navigate ...

The California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, has reported a combined exposure of approximately $4.8 billion due to the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires in the Los Angeles area.

The spiking levels underscore the added danger from wildfires when cars, homes, and other structures burn, researchers said. Lead is often present in paint and pipes used in older homes, while ...

SAN DIEGO — As wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles County, concerns are mounting over the financial capacity of California's insurer of last resort, the FAIR Plan, to handle what will ...

A firefighting plane makes a drop on a burning home in Pacific Palisades on Jan 7. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

To remain solvent, California’s Fair Plan may turn to its member insurers for financial help and prompt them to levy surcharges on policyholders. The California FAIR Plan Assn., the state’s ...

LOS ANGELES — The California FAIR Plan Association, the state's property insurer of last resort, was born of smoldering ashes — not of a wildfire, but of one of the worst urban disturbances in ...