Noah Haggerty

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Noah Haggerty |Sean Greene |Sandhya Kambhampati

In the over four decades the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has been mapping wildfire hazard, the Legislature has referenced, cross-referenced and cross-referenced their cross-references of the maps in over 100 fire-safety regulations across the state’s reams of statutory and regulatory codes — including highway safety, building requirements and insurance law. This year, Cal Fire increased the zones by nearly 6 million acres — representing about 6% of the state.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Noah Haggerty |Sean Greene

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than 440,000 acres to the county’s hazard zones, including a 30% increase in acres zoned in the highest severity rating.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Noah Haggerty

David Rasmussen of Victorville waves an upside-down American flag while participating in a march to the Wilshire Federal Building, in one of the largest protests in Los Angeles since Trump took office almost two months ago, on Saturday, March 22, 2025. When Jesse Ugalde, who served in the Vietnam War, entered a Department of Veterans Affairs building Friday, he noticed a difference. “Already, people are leaving,” Ugalde, 74, who relies on the VA for his healthcare, said of VA employees.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Noah Haggerty

After every federal employee received an email asking them to list their recent accomplishments, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to his social media platform X, warning any employee who didn’t respond would be terminated. NASA, instead, asserted that replying was optional and that its leadership would handle the matter. Two weeks after the clash, the space agency hitched a ride to orbit on a SpaceX rocket.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Noah Haggerty |Sean Greene

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released new fire-hazard severity maps Monday that added thousands of acres within the purview of local fire departments across agricultural Central Valley counties that previously had zero acres zoned as such. The Central Coast’s Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties saw their fire-hazard acreages increase more than four- and fivefold, respectively.