A brush fire that blazed through Sepulveda Basin was fully contained Thursday, authorities said. Adding to a string of vegetation fires, the flames were initially reported at 75 acres just before 4 a.

The Los Angeles fires forced thousands of residents to evacuate the region as firefighters have had difficulty putting out a ...

Cook would drive west to San Francisco, where he and his wife, Donna, lived the other half of the year. Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said.