Text messages released to ABC News through a public records request provide new insight about what local officials were discussing before, during and after the fires.

Los Angeles Police Seek Public’s Help Identifying Hit-and-Run Driver After Elderly Woman Severely Injured on Coldwater Canyon Avenue

With growing panic in his voice, Los Angeles County Fire Department Captain Alek Edwards watched as the Palisades Fire moved closer to his Tahitian Terrace mobile home park on Jan. 7.

Host Conan O’Brien brought out members of the Los Angeles Fire Department to a standing ovation from the theater. He then had them read out jokes from the teleprompter. “Everyone in the audience has to laugh,

Los Angeles Police Officer-Involved Shooting Occurred After Mother Calls for Help with Son Suffering from Mental Illness

Jim McDonnell is a cop.  That’s hardly a surprise. He is, after all, the newest chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, one of the nation’s most storied, emulated and criticized law enforcement agencies — celebrated by Dragnet,

Emmery Munoz was found dead on the loading dock of a Boyle Heights business in 2006. Nineteen years later, her killer remains at large.