Wildfires

State Farm, which already has rate increase requests pending, asked state officials to approve more insurance price increases.

The proposed budget the Newsom administration unveiled earlier this month is already scrap paper because the deadly wildfires that scorched Southern California will clobber tax revenues while imposing massive new financial burdens.

All the talk about attaching conditions to California’s federal disaster aid have placed the state’s Republican members of Congress in a quandary: Do they fight for speedy, unconditional relief dollars for wildfire victims in their home state? Or do they fall in line behind President Trump?

School officials are scrambling to find an alternate site for its campus while trying to support families, nearly half of whom lost their homes in the fire.

California Senate leader reappointed Sen. Susan Rubio as chair of the insurance committee, despite her possible link to a federal bribery probe. Rubio denies wrongdoing, and no charges have been filed against her

Citing the LA fires, Trump directed federal agencies to "immediately take actions to override" water operations and environmental rules. But the water mostly serves Central Valley farms.

The president excluded Gov. Newsom from plans for his visit to fire-ravaged Los Angeles today, but the governor showed up on the tarmac anyway, and the two said they would cooperate. Trump's growing list of demands — and threats to block federal aid — won't make that easy.

Resource centers in Los Angeles County are fielding thousands of questions from thousands of tragedies. They are resetting the foundations for individuals and families that seemed solid just two weeks ago and now seem unfathomably tenuous.

Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of rebuilding in LA may eat up much of the money voters approved in November for school repairs statewide.

Being a county supervisor can be hard work in California, but in times of crisis, it’s a lot less uncomfortable than being a mayor. The dynamic is about to change for Los Angeles County.