Two L.A. institutions set to disappear
A confluence of circumstances made 2025 a brutal year for the restaurants in Los Angeles and many other…
DHS attorney said agents in Los Angeles should have ‘started hitting’ protesters, emails show
A lead attorney for the Department of Homeland Security suggested that federal agents should have “just started hitting…
Letters to the Editor: The K Line extension does nothing to address L.A.’s immediate concerns
To the editor: While it is great that Los Angeles is finally planning for light rail lines, elevated…
A rebuttal to L.A.’s long hate-affair with public transit
I took a ride on the Los Angeles Metro’s A-line train last weekend and it was remarkable both…
The inspiring, infuriating, even comic tale of how we defeated L.A.’s smog and why we may have to again
A city of swans, that’s us. From the world’s vantage point, Los Angeles can look like a place…
Smoglandia: Smog checks, diamond lanes and leaf blower bans work, but a dark cloud comes from D.C.
Even if you weren’t around Los Angeles in 1992, you’ve heard of Rodney King, the man whose videotaped…
Smoglandia: We haven’t always been smoggy, but we’re built that way
It’s late July in 1943. Over the radio, Bing Crosby is crooning, Bob Hope is joking, and news…
Smoglandia: Quandary — The smog we hate so much versus the cars we love so much
Eighty years ago, the enchantment ended. Los Angeles, that magical realm of shimmering natural beauty, was befouled by…
Meet the (sorta) Fantastic 10 running for California governor
There’s been plenty of kvetching about the lowish profile of the candidates for governor of California — the…
Four-story buildings allowed in some single-family zones under L.A.’s plan to delay SB 79
Since Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 79 into law last year, L.A. officials have been developing a strategy…
LA28 Olympic design: a ‘super bloom’ of color, with grittier lettering
A team of 20 designers turned to the exuberant, ephemeral natural world and to the grittier L.A. street…
This rail line would get you to the Grove, the Beverly Center and Cedars-Sinai. Is it L.A.’s ‘missing link’?
In the decades since Los Angeles began building a modern rail network, officials have been waiting for the…