What Drove The Lumber Market Crash? Tracy Alloway and I caught up with our old friend Stinson Dean🌲 to get a better understanding of why lumber prices have had such a brutal run. As always, really fun and informative time chatting with Stinson podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lot…

When homes are densely packed in alignment with the direction of strong fire-season winds, it is nearly almost impossible to cut enough brush to make the homes defensible. Fire burns from house to house, no longer a 'brush fire'. A neighborhood in the path of #PallisadesFire. 1/4

On the ground for the #palisadesfire in Pacific Palisades. The fire has erupted to 770+ acres. Winds are still strong. My elderly dad lives less than a mile from here. These are my favorite mountains to run in. Always gutting reporting on my home burning.

I think about this scene from Bring Your Own Brigade a lot, when an expert looks at the camera and says he could easily imagine a fire starting in one of the canyons and burning the urban fabric of LA

Read the full story by Blanca Begert, Camille von Kaenel, Tom Frank and Zack Colman: politico.com/news/2025/01/0…

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer for Los Angeles Times. Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling the blazes in Southern California this week: latimes.com/california/sto…

Los Angeles Immigration Protest thread 🧵

UPDATE: David Huerta had been released from custody.

In Los Angeles, journalists covering the anti-ICE protests are coming under fire from law enforcement. Advocates worry for their safety but also for the public's ability to get accurate and timely news. My latest for The Washington Post with Jeremy Barr: washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

Heartbroken families are speaking out after videos captured dozens of car wash workers and at least one customer being detained in West Los Angeles ICE raids over the weekend. ktla.com/news/local-new…

Masked arrests. Smashed windows. Greater shows of force. Indiscriminate detentions. How the White House marching orders to "Just go out there and arrest illegal aliens" have triggered a change in ICE tactics-- and a backlash in LA & elsewhere wsj.com/us-news/protes…

All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids, protests throughout the city. Latest w/ Nathan Solis Karen Garcia & Howard Blume latimes.com/california/sto…

Immigration agents raided the Home Depot on sunset in Los Angeles. Francisco says dozens of agents surrounded the parking lot and took people early this morning around 7am.

The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this week to approve a revised oil and gas rezoning ordinance that could allow for nearly 2,700 new oil wells to be permitted each year. turnto23.com/news/in-your-n…

Today's killing of four journalists in #Gaza includes Anas Al-Sharif one of Al Jazeera’s best-known reporters and one of several whom Israel had previously alleged were members of Hamas without providing evidence. Most recently, Al-Sharif had reported on the starvation that he

In a new paper, Harvard researchers argue CA’s guidelines for lead contamination in post-fire soil aren’t strict enough. Others say it’s a debate best kept to scientific journals with few implications for fire survivors. Here’s what you should know: latimes.com/environment/st…

Great series out from grist today on the chaotic and often exploitative world of disaster recovery. In Maui, a third of residents who were homeowners before the Lāhainā fires no longer own their homes. Story by Anita Hofschneider: grist.org/housing/two-ye…

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve started a new job this week as a California environment reporter Inside Climate News. If you have tips or just want to talk about water, fire, agriculture, energy, or air pollution, please reach out! I’d love to hear from you.

Kern subbasin gets off enforcement track with latest groundwater plan redo sjvwater.org/kern-subbasin-…