Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter ... for Black Altadenans Altadena, population nearly 42,000, is the town where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once visited ...

Martin Johnson and his fiancé, Celeigh Chapman, had spent several years restoring and renovating their home in Altadena by hand ... housing market in Southern California. The massive wildfires ...

Altadena has not yet experienced issues like these, but that might not last. California prohibits insurance companies from dropping customers in fire-struck areas for at least a year, but ...

ALTADENA, Calif. -- Time stopped on Jan. 7, 2025, in the town of Altadena, California ... In the 1940s, Mae Reese Johnson founded the Scattergood Club in nearby Pasadena to educate and nurture ...

There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California, Erion Taylor remembers. Instead, she got a text from her neighborhood group chat ...