Years of rebuilding in Southern California will create a scarcity of construction workers and materials throughout the state.

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

Muttville, a senior dog rescue in San Francisco, has been working around the clock to send donations down to shelters impacted by the Los Angeles County wildfires.

A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center for Angelenos impacted by the fires has also been set up at the UCLA Research Park (formerly the Westside Pavilion). The center will serve as FEMA’s central hub for evacuated residents on the Westside, offering aid to those who have lost their homes, businesses or vital records.

At least two dozen people have been reported dead in fires raging across Los Angeles. Five lived near one another in a ravaged Altadena neighborhood.

Besides burning the most urban area, the Eaton and Palisades fires are the largest ever for California in January. Alexandra Syphard, a senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, said their timing and path through the city “may have no precedent in history.”

The San Francisco SPCA is offering free puppy adoptions for a limited time in order to free up space for animals being sent out of the wildfire zones in the Los Angeles area.

(Stephen Lam/San Francisco ... also vehicles. Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone is among the leaders who have said the estimate includes vehicles — a caveat not typically made when authorities estimate fire damage. As California’s wildfire ...

The Stockton Fire Department and 10 other fire agencies sent resources to help fight the Palisades Fire in Southern California. Here's what we know.

Scores of residents have returned to their still smoldering neighborhoods even as the threat of new fires persisted.

Amid the wildfires, a petition initially created a year ago to address crime in Vallejo has reignited recent support.

The sheriff's office says he is the first person to be charged in the county under an amended California law which makes child sex abuse material generated by artificial intelligence illegal.