Steve Soboroff is a longtime fixture in Los Angeles civic life who is now serving as chief recovery officer for the city's wildfire comeback.

On the morning of Jan. 7, as thick black smoke billowed over the Pacific Palisades, newsrooms across the city mobilized without a key piece of news-gathering equipment.

After wildfires displaced thousands of Angelenos, a patchwork of cooks, restaurateurs, and volunteers have operated something ...

Steve Soboroff's salary would have been funded by charitable organizations. He had defended the arrangement, saying his ...