The understaffed Los Angeles County Probation Department is asking that state if local police departments can help preform compliance checks.

The Probation Department’s failure to properly supervise probationers was blamed, in part, for the deaths of two El Monte ...

"It does have a high potential for spread because we are looking at 32-mph winds as we speak," LA County Fire Department Captain Sheila Kelliher Berkoh said that day. "Those winds are supposed to ...

More than a month after the state ordered Los Angeles County’s sole juvenile ... “They’re doing the best they can.” Probation Chief Guillermo Viera Rosa did not attend the hearing.

Superior Court Judge Miguel Espinoza is seemingly swayed by having no good alternatives for where the roughly 230 youths housed in the Downey facility should go instead.

"The fire remains a difficult fire to contain, although we are getting the upper hand," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said at a news briefing for the Hughes Fire earlier Wednesday.

The Hughes fire has grown rapidly in northern Los Angeles County, with the devastating Eaton ... Corina Knoll is the Los Angeles bureau chief for The Times, covering Southern California.

The Hughes Fire has spread to over 8,000 acres in Los Angeles County's Castaic area on Wednesday as dry vegetation and brutal Santa Ana winds continue to boost fire conditions across Southern ...

A red flag warning remains in effect until 10 a.m. Friday," Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Anthony Marrone said. "It remains a difficult fire to contain, although we are getting the ...