Federal authorities arrested a 29-year-old Melbourne man on charges he set off the Palisades fires that ravaged parts of Los Angeles in 2025.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), claiming a lack of support on wildfires in the Los Angeles area earlier this year.

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man with igniting the January fire that destroyed Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli says Jonathan Rinderknecht was a ...

Federal authorities unsealed charging documents that allege that Jonathan Rinderknecht started a fire that would become the fatal Palisades Fire.

A Florida man has been arrested, accused of starting what became the deadly and destructive "Palisades Fire" on Jan. 1, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. The Palisades Fire killed 12 people, burned ...

A former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with deliberately lighting a blaze on the Skull Head Trail in the Santa Monica ...

Los Angeles (CNN) — Nine months after a raging inferno decimated the Los Angeles area, claiming the lives of a dozen people and burning down thousands of homes and businesses, officials have arrested ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California has charged a Florida man with allegedly starting the Palisades wildfire. In January, the fire destroyed a large portion of the ...

He’s the son of Baptist missionaries who loved soccer as a child. In the Hollywood neighborhood where he lived and worked as an Uber driver, one acquaintance described him as “a really nice guy.” Yet ...

The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, allegedly used a lighter to set the fire, then called 911. He fled the scene but returned to watch it burn, authorities said. Here's what we know about his background.