Colleen Shalby is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She has covered education, the pandemic, the vaccine rollout and breaking news throughout California. She was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of a dive-boat fire off the Santa Barbara coast. Shalby grew up in Southern California and graduated from George Washington University. She previously worked for PBS NewsHour and joined The Times in 2015.
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We’re tracking damage assessments from the Eaton and Palisades fires, which destroyed 12,000 structures in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
For some in Altadena, the fire took away their place of work and their home.
The Eaton fire cut a brutal swath through Altadena and a cherished way of life in this eclectic foothill community it upended.
Un incendio que se desató en las colinas cerca de Eaton Canyon alrededor de las 6:28 p.m. creció rápidamente a 400 acres.
A fire that broke out in the foothills near Eaton Canyon around 6:28 p.m. has quickly grown to 400 acres.
California’s high-speed rail project faces pushback from the incoming Trump administration. But state leaders on Monday expressed their resolve that it would one day connect Los Angeles to the Bay Area and possibly link to another high-speed rail line between Southern California and Las Vegas.
After a bus driver was fatally stabbed, transit officials expedited plans to finish armoring the bulk of its 2,017 buses with protective tempered glass to shield drivers from passengers. It is the first transit agency in the nation to do so.
The airport expected a peak of roughly 215,000 passengers each day this past weekend, and again on Dec. 27 and Dec. 30.