Parched California looks to water recycling, desalination and more
In the more than four decades since I started at the L.A. Times, we’ve never had a reporter…
Immigrants caught one of L.A.’s most notorious serial killers. Lessons from the barrio 40 years later.
On a toasty summer Sunday 40 years ago, Richard Ramirez was the nation’s most wanted man. The Nightstalker…
Rating Southern California’s worst and best freeways
Back in my days of commuting to and from the Westside, I thought I could outwit, out-calm or…
Trump’s huge Brazil tariff hits small business in L.A. County
In the heady circles where global economists and academics offer their opinions, President Trump’s whopping 50% tariff on…
NY Post to open a California edition
Even as he built a media empire headlined by Fox News, Rupert Murdoch never gave up his love…
The cookies that unite California’s politicians, no matter their party
Fox 11 anchor Elex Michaelson is one of the nice guys in L.A. media. His tough-but-fair-and-especially-polite lines of…
A moment of truth in the Erewhon check-out
This was not going to be an ordinary trip to the market. When I pulled up to the…
The aftershocks of L.A.’s summer of ICE will live on
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, parks across the San Fernando Valley filled with families left homeless by the…
With canine massages and ‘pawdicures,’ L.A. dogs get 5-star treatment
It’s no secret. Los Angeles loves dogs. Everywhere you go is crawling with dogs, and they are living…
Why everybody refuses to believe crime is falling, even though it is
Homicides in Los Angeles are on track to hit a nearly 60-year low. Property crime across California dipped…