Steve Lopez

If I’m watching my community go up in flames, I’d prefer that officials focus on putting out the fires before starting one at City Hall

Days after losing his home in the Eaton fire, social worker Anthony Ruffin’s ‘day off’ looks like many of his other days off: he’s helping the homeless

Their house survived the fires. Now the Turners, along with thousands of others, are crushed, dazed, in limbo and not sure how to proceed.

When it comes to the fires, there’s a lot to talk about. But can we do so as grown-ups, without using an epic disaster as a political piñata?

California ofrece grandes regalos y grandes riesgos. Steve López los sopesa todos mientras se prepara para una posible evacuación del brutal incendio de Eaton.

California offers great gifts and great risks. Steve Lopez weighs them all as he gets ready for a possible evacuation from the brutal Eaton fire.

MacArthur Park needs someone to say, ‘not on my watch.’ It’s unacceptable that severely incapacitated people stagger about like ghosts, their bodies twisted, their eyes vacant.

Various public and nonprofit teams are targeting drug use in MacArthur Park, but it’s not enough, yet, to solve the public health crisis.

How can police deal with gangs, organized retail theft, addiction and untreated mental illness in MacArthur Park? The Rampart Division captain says they don’t have ‘the right tools.’

Griffth Park is a hiker’s paradise crossed by popular, twisty trails. But some of the regulars are furious about a couple of new fences that block shortcuts, calling them an ‘obscenity.’