Sean Greene

1 month ago | latimes.com | Malia Mendez |Caroline Petrow-Cohen |Sean Greene

Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer known for affordability, announced it would be raising prices, providing the clearest signal to date of the effects of President Trump’s steep tariffs on U.S. shoppers. In an earnings call on Thursday, executives for the retail giant told industry analysts that an increase in prices would be unavoidable in the face of the highest import duties the U.S. has seen since the 1930s.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Sean Greene

Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences subdivided the landscape. At some point, one climbed a post and became known to us ever onward as the fence lizard. If you grew up or live in California or western United States, chances are you’ve seen sceloporus occidentalis.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Rebecca Ellis |Koko Nakajima |Sean Greene

Long before the evacuation order came, law enforcement officers knew fire was spreading in west Altadena. At 12:55 a.m. Jan. 8, a sheriff’s official reported a flaming structure on the corner of Las Flores Drive, a few doors down from the home of a 71-year-old who would later die in the fire. At 2:33 a.m., a Pasadena police officer told 911 dispatchers that flames had consumed Monterosa Drive, where a man would die on his walkway, clutching a garden hose.

2 months 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.

Mar 24, 2025 | gazettextra.com | Noah Haggerty |Sean Greene

LOS ANGELES — 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.