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The Los Angeles fires are a soul-crushing and city-defining disaster. Callous voices have called it a city-destroying event, ...

The Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed or damaged several locations that have been used to make movies and TV shows.

With the fires in Los Angeles still burning, the cost of their destruction ... companies from the city’s housing market left California’s badly overexposed state-backed insurer, FAIR, as ...

In California, the supposedly unthinkable keeps ... AccuWeather experts estimated that between property damage and economic losses, the tab will be $250 billion to $275 billion.

PHOTOS: Powerful images show destruction from deadly LA firesA beach front home destroyed by the Palisades Fire is seen in Malibu, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong LOS ...

Yes, so, basically, for a long time, the state of California had limited the amount that insurance companies could charge to their customers. And as fire damages kept going up and the insurers had ...

saying his priorities will be to rebuild the destruction caused by a yearlong war with Israel and work on pulling the small nation out of its historic economic meltdown. Nawaf Salam spoke after ...

The dramatic level of destruction in some places was evident ... with the Eaton Fire roughly one-third contained. In California, record-breaking fires in 2017 and 2018 destroyed communities ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said the firestorm could rank as the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history. Private forecaster AccuWeather has estimated the damage and economic loss ...

Photos from the path of destruction show communities completely transformed, as the personal, cultural, and economic losses continue to mount. Take a look at the destruction facing residents as ...