City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll ...

By Savana Robinson On the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 7, Abby Miles opened the door to her family home in Altadena and saw the hillside on fire, flames quickly moving toward her. Miles screamed for ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

These homes and other structures were monuments to the Black residents drawn to Altadena, first as domestic workers in the estates of millionaires and later as a rising middle class of professionals .

The two-bedroom house along East Altadena Drive was purchased ... "Gwen," had graduated from a Chicago high school at 16 and later worked as a special education teacher in California.

An Altadena mother is spearheading an effort to rebuild Village Play Garden Preschool, her son’s school destroyed in ... home base with his friends and teachers who nurture him so beautifully ...

At one point in history, African Americans made up over 40% of Altadena's homeowners. In 2025, of the 18% of Black residents in the town, 81% own homes—almost double the national rate.