Text messages released to ABC News through a public records request provide new insight about what local officials were ...

An attorney for Bass' office claims that public record laws do not apply to text messages, and that Bass' phone is set up to ...

The text messages Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sent and received about the Palisades Fire were reportedly not saved.

A woman suspected of starting the fire that destroyed one trailer and damaged three other is in Wayne County jail, facing multiple charges of arson.

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Late at night on Jan. 6, Los Angeles Emergency Management Department General Manager Carol Parks sent a text message wishing Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley a happy new year.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The text messages Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sent and received about the Palisades Fire were not ...

Text messages to and from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass about January’s deadly Palisades Fire while Bass was on a trip to Africa were not saved, according to a newspaper report. The Los Angeles Times ...