Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass exchanged text messages during the early hours of the Palisades Fire that showed she struggled to communicate with her staff as she returned from a trip to Ghana.

Bass is facing criticism over two issues in particular: a funding cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department in the fire-prone region and the timing of a diplomatic trip to Ghana as dangerous fire ...

You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. As virtually every Angeleno now knows, Mayor Karen Bass was on a diplomatic trip to Ghana when the Palisades fire exploded.

Faced with a nearly $1-billion budget shortfall, Bass released a budget after her speech that calls for the elimination of ...

Los Angeles is rebuilding, but new crises are mounting and Mayor Karen Bass has been haunted by her absence when the fires ...

when the costliest natural disaster in modern Los Angeles history erupted while she was across the globe on a diplomatic trip to Ghana. Her halting initial response to the fires triggered fierce ...