Mayor Bass suspends electric building codes, but only for homes that burned down.

Is it even possible to lessen the inherent risk of building in the hills surrounding Los Angeles? What can L.A.’s (and the rest of California’s) politicians do as they prepare to deal with a ...

Pedersen was one of about 40 people who joined a recent workshop on the eastern side of Los Angeles to brainstorm a way forward with so-called natural building techniques. On the west side ...

People need to be discouraged from building again and again in high-risk areas. As the Los Angeles fires are brought under control, the focus will turn to rebuilding. It’s easy to say city ...

Los Angeles County already has strict wildfire building codes for homes and has passed rules that limit new development in wildfire-prone areas. Still, the ferocity of the fires exceeded what ...

It may be weeks, and likely months, before we have the full measure of the catastrophe wrought by the Los Angeles fires ... stricter building and maintenance codes, better allocation of ...

Los Angeles Wildfires Spark Interest in Adobe, Natural Building Materials By Peter Henderson ALTADENA, California (Reuters) - Marialyce Pedersen stood in a white Tyvek suit on her Altadena ...