Tens of thousands of Los Angeles county workers are going on strike, closing libraries and disrupting administrative operations across the region.

An Associated Press analysis of emergency communications shows that the first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already burning.

Easing winds have delivered a brief but much-needed reprieve to firefighters as they battle two massive blazes in the Los Angeles area.

The unions representing more than 7,000 CVS workers in Southern California have reached a tentative agreement on a contract.