Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Thursday that her brother was ... party in Ghana when the fire started — said her brother’s house “was my family home where we went on the holidays.” ...

In the wreckage, displaced residents were forced into makeshift shelters ... of the civic response have been mixed at best. Mayor Karen Bass took heat for being out of the country when the ...

Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has revealed ... Fire Department chief warned Bass last month that a nearly $18 million budget cut had plunged it into "unprecedented operational challenges ...