A golden anniversary is a golden time to mark the pleasant passing of the years, a lively look-back that can brim with good feelings and memories that are solid gold. Stream Los Angeles News for free, ...

Topanga Canyon resident Derek Mabra, part of a group of citizens called the Heat Hawks, hoses down hot spots behind a friend's home in Topanga Canyon. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) As an inferno ...

Topanga Canyon is a gloriously wild landscape. An eccentric holdout of a countercultural ethos that once went a long way toward defining the Southern California lifestyle. This is a tightknit ...

As an inferno raged in the Pacific Palisades, Derek Mabra went surfing. The winds were generating “insanely good” waves closer to his home in Topanga Canyon, a mountain town about three miles up the ...