Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning ...

Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster.

On the afternoon of Jan. 9, nearly 10 million people across Los Angeles County received a warning that they were in danger.

Betty Bersinger was walking down Norton Avenue one morning in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park, pushing her three ...