Torched Talks with LA County GIS manager Nick Franchino

Let's crunch some megaevent data on November 5

Alissa Walker Oct 29, 2025

Air traffic control

The LAX-pressway must be stopped

Alissa Walker Oct 23, 2025

1,000 days later

Unfortunately, the mayor's vision — which feels about 1,000 days too late — is so light on substance that it's hard to see how LA's megaevent future materializes

Alissa Walker Oct 21, 2025

Disasters

4 articles

A wooden Smokey the Bear sign in Griffith Park says Prevent Wildfires and shows Fire Danger: HIGH

The fire next time

Red flag warning

What happens if disaster strikes when millions of tourists are in town?

Alissa Walker Oct 11, 2025

Two young kids running around a garden space at Hollywood High courtyard with a blue mural behind it

Hot links

Safe spaces

In the midst of a climate disaster, schools must become beacons of resiliency in every community

Alissa Walker Feb 6, 2025

A hand holds up a charred piece of magazine that has a Penzoil ad with the words LONG LOVE in front of smoke clouds

Fire watch

Zero percent containment

Reporting from a city, torched

Alissa Walker Jan 9, 2025

An advertisement on a bus shelter on an shadeless LA street showing "how to avoid heat stroke"

Too hot

The Olympics are literally a disaster

It's less like a football game and more like a major earthquake

Alissa Walker Sep 6, 2024