The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner now reports that 27 people have been confirmed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, with 31 people still missing.

The L.A.-area fires may pose the first big test of California’s wildfire fund, which was set up in 2019 to protect utilities from bankruptcy.

Investigators are looking into whether a small blaze was not totally snuffed out and reignited to start the Palisades fire, the Los Angeles Fire Department’s chief said.

Attorneys are suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility company's negligence caused the deadly Eaton and Palisades fires.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern California.

Coverage of the Eaton and Palisades fires, including stories about the unprecedented losses, issues firefighters faced and the winds.

Some residents evacuated in the Palisades fire also were allowed to return home on Thursday afternoon. Their homes are in an area near the Encino Reservoir, bordered on the east by the 405 Freeway and Westridge Canyonback Wilderness and north of West Sunset Boulevard.

Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was sued over the death of a woman whose home burned in one of the catastrophic Los Angeles fires, in a case brought by a prominent civil rights lawyer on behalf of a historically Black community.

The complaints allege the utility failed to de-energize its power lines, which allowed the electrical equipment to spark the massive blaze near Pasadena on Jan. 7.

Edison International — the parent company of the utility Southern California Edison — has seen its stock remain under pressure as lawsuits begin over its potential role in the fires that have ravaged parts of Southern California.

As the devastating wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles, with the Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities still grappling with destruction, Southern California Edison (SCE) is facing multiple lawsuits speculating that faulty power lines may have sparked the Eaton Fire.

A California energy company is under investigation for a potential link to one of the wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles, with their possible role in the 800 acre Hurst fire under scrutiny