Alex Wigglesworth is an environment reporter who covers wildfire and forestry for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the newsroom in 2016, she was a general assignment reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. A Philadelphia native, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in medical anthropology and global health. She currently lives in the Mojave Desert.
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Here’s a timeline of key events at Giant Rock, a landmark north of Landers, Calif., that attracts seekers, partiers, conservationists and, according to some, extraterrestrials.
June 23, 2024
A seven-story boulder on federal land has become a tinderbox of tensions over who gets to enjoy this patch of Mojave Desert, which has rapidly gentrified since the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 23, 2024
The Tanbark prescribed fire in the mountains above Glendora, San Dimas and La Verne could be lit as soon as this week, the U.S. Forest Service says.
June 12, 2024
Amboy has been beset by a series of crises that stretch back more than half a century. But owner Kyle Okura hopes to turn it around. No less than his father’s legacy is at stake.
June 9, 2024
The fire broke out Saturday near an explosives testing facility and triggered evacuations in San Joaquin County.
June 3, 2024
A portion of Los Angeles’ Mulholland Drive has reopened after it was damaged during a monster storm that unleashed mud and debris flows nearly four months ago.
May 25, 2024
Los Angeles County warns beachgoers to avoid the waters in several areas where testing turned up bacterial levels that exceed state standards.
May 25, 2024
A man was shot and killed when he interrupted three people who were trying to remove a catalytic converter from a vehicle in downtown Los Angeles early Saturday, police said.
May 25, 2024
A victim of recent attacks in the Venice canals was removed from life support, according to a KTLA-TV report and an online fundraising page for the woman.
May 25, 2024
A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military installations.
May 23, 2024