As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles, leaving thousands displaced and causing widespread destruction, experts urge long-term support and careful giving.

Just when many restaurants had turned the corner of surviving the COVID-19 pandemic, some near the fire zones in Los Angeles County are feeling the same burden all over again. The doors are open but no one is coming in.

As Los Angeles is gripped by wildfires that resemble a Hollywood disaster movie, the city's vast entertainment industry is already counting the costs of yet another drastic setback that its workers can ill-afford.

Universal Studios Hollywood announced on Tuesday, Jan. 8, that it would close its doors amid a series of deadly wildfires throughout Los Angeles — marking the theme park's first closure since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal have shut down or scaled back in-person work. As the wildfires continue to spread across the Los Angeles area, studios and agencies are shutting down their lots and offices, or allowing employees to work remotely if safe to do so.

A former California Employment Development Department employee admitted this week in federal court to fraudulently obtaining more than $768,000 in COVID-19 unemployment payments ... 64, of South Los Angeles — pleaded guilty to the same charge.

Vaccination in nursing homes led to a decrease in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 in the two years that followed the height of the pandemic, according to a report published Tuesday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

The devastation wrought by the deadly wildfires that ravaged sections of Los Angeles have left an indelible imprint on the region’s landscape and psyche.

FilmLA's annual on-location production report shows shoot days in Los Angeles were the lowest since 1995, except for the Covid year of 2020.

Tourism officials are looking for signs of what short- and long-term toll the wildfires that struck the Los Angeles area may take on its prowess as a tourism destination.

Three days after immensely destructive and deadly wildfires broke out in and around Los Angeles ... Newsom ordered shutdowns to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. About 3 million workers were idled ...

L.A. County's wildfires add uncertainty to California's already shaky recovery from the pandemic-era recession and higher than average unemployment.