Sarwar is a writer, artist and community activist who shares Altadena poet laureate honors with writer Lester Graves Lennon.

In Sierra Madre, residents were building wooden walls outside their yards and packing up their cars to leave Wednesday as they braced for possible mudslides with this week's storm — facing mandatory ...

We can see just how a disruption or a delay in notifications can literally lead to death for some,” one lawmaker says.

County fire or sheriff’s officials appear to have failed to set the alerts in motion, leaving many west Altadena residents to ...

Overwhelming majorities of Los Angeles County voters support strengthening building codes and imposing greater restrictions ...

Public opinion is split on the council and board, but those questioned in the poll had a more unfavorable view of Karen Bass.

An Altadena preservation group has long been a voice on matters of development and historic preservation. As the recovery ...

Orchard Hills is a planned community in Orange County that broke ground in 2014, with developers taking specific steps to ...

The challenge of post-fire recovery is one faced by communities around the world. Terms like “build back better” and “managed ...

The lawsuits blame SCE’s equipment for triggering the deadly blaze that cut a mammoth swath of damage through the ...

Steve Carell is making sure Altadena-area high school seniors will make it to their prom after the community was devastated ...