Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. PST Los Angeles County public health officials issue closures of several miles of beach near the Palisades ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just ...

“It was a megaproject of engineering that changed the world with the help and the hands and the sweat and the blood of thousands of people ... and Pacific had to sail below South America ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

South Korean investigators found feathers in both engines of the Boeing Co. 737-800 jet involved in a crash late last month, pointing to possible evidence that the aircraft may have lost ...

As many survey the devastation caused by the fires, attention has been drawn to what the Getty Museum did to protect itself. For most people in ... the remains of his Pacific Palisades home ...

Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two fronts. Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades ... a team of more than a dozen people at the Villa and 28 at the Center ...

Last weekend, warnings to evacuate were issued to the suburban westside neighborhood of Brentwood, which includes the esteemed Getty Center, home to one of the city’s most prized art collections.

And the South Bay as well ... In the Castellammare neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, adjacent to the Getty Villa, “they fought fire for 36 hours straight and saved several homes,” Butler ...

the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty Center in Brentwood where Vincent van G ...

SAM GHAZI//Getty Images A view of the Getty Villa on a hillside in Pacific Palisades ... California wildfires have killed at least 24 people, and the death toll is expected to continue to rise.