On the morning of Jan. 7, as thick black smoke billowed over the Pacific Palisades, newsrooms across the city mobilized without a key piece of news-gathering equipment.

In 249, legends say the woman who later became St. Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry, was tortured and killed for being a Christian. Her tormentors broke her teeth with iron points and ...

New York Times reporters have been writing personal portraits about the fires in the California Today newsletter. Here is a collection of their dispatches on what the disaster means to them ...