When Los Angeles City Council members voted two years ago to give hotel workers a raise, Bill Martinez was the type of worker they said they wanted to help. Martinez, a 53-year-old bellhop… By Peter Jamison. (Apr. 9)

How the supposedly sinister Santa Ana winds can change us and how we’re changing them. By Adrian Glick Kudler.

We're used to seeing swanky rooftop restaurants and bars, taco stands and outdoor patios decorated with lights in Los Angeles. But back in the day we had restaurants and food stands that took architecture to the next level, with wacky buildings shaped as actual items like tamales, hot dogs and planes.

The revitalization of LA’s neglected riverfront has gone from social-justice crusade to money-soaked land grab. By Richard Kreitner. (Mar. 10)

On the road with the emergency response team of the Department of Children and Family Services. By Miles Corwin. (Feb. 22)

The Los Angeles school system has come far in the last ten years, especially in terms of inclusivity. In 2003, only 54 percent of LA’s disabled students were taught alongside their nondisabled peers; today, it’s more than 90 percent. But some parents worry that general education schools won’t provide the specialized attention their children require. John Tulenko of Education Week reports.

Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people living on freeway overpasses in South Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County's juvenile detention system was designed in an era when youth crime was on the rise. The number of juvenile arrests has fallen dramatically in recent years. Some say the system has not kept up with this shift, and now it's costing taxpayers money. A county audit found that the average cost of incarcerating a youth has soared to $233,600 a year, significantly higher than other comparable jurisdictions.

Dorner's rampage, targeting officers and their families, set the law enforcement community on edge for more than a week. Thinking they had spotted his pickup truck, the LAPD officers opened fire shortly before 6 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2013, shooting the truck Margie Hernandez and Emma Carranza were inside and injuring both of them. In a memo released Wednesday, the L.A. County District Attorney's Office said there was "insufficient admissible evidence to prove beyond...

Since a gas leak erupted outside LA on October 23rd, over 83,000 metric tons of methane have escaped to the atmosphere, prompting public officials to evacuate the neighboring community of Porter Ranch. But as a disturbing new analysis shows, a much broader swath of LA is now drowning in methane. The Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that’s been shedding light on leaky natural gas infrastructure for years.

A mysterious mansion hidden in the hills of Los Angeles remains frozen in time since December 6, 1959. During that dark night, a doctor murdered his wife in a frenzied hammer attack, and then killed himself. Fifty years later, visitors started reporting paranormal activity. Now the abandoned house is the focus of an Internet obsession. This is the true story of 2475 Glendower Place. By Jeff Maysh.

One of the worst environmental disasters of the decade is currently underway in a quiet community 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Putrid, methane-rich natural gas has been spewing into the air at an estimated rate of nearly 1,300 metric tons per day for over two months. Experts are calling it the climate version of the BP oil spill, and the leak isn’t going to be contained anytime soon.

They were soft-spoken teenagers — next-door neighbors growing up in a suburban tract in Riverside. But the bond Syed Rizwan Farook and Enrique Marquez formed a decade ago was tight. They began visiting a local mosque, discussing Islamic radicalism and amassing weapons and explosives. Then, four years before the San Bernardino massacre, they hatched terrifying schemes, according to federal prosecutors.

Carrie Kirshman and Nina Giovannitti were close neighbors at their Spanish villa apartments in Fairfax, sharing keys, collecting each other's mail and tending to a communal garden in the backyard. Their rent-controlled building allowed them to enjoy below-market rents of less than $2,000 a month for their two-bedroom pads in the upscale neighborhood. That came to an end in late 2013 when the owners evicted them under the Ellis Act, a state law that allows...

A Los Angeles undertaker wants to end our estrangement from death by bringing corpses back home. By Rebecca Mead.

Nov 19 A security alert over a report of an unauthorized person trying to board a JetBlue Airways plane at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday apparently was triggered by an off-duty pilot who ended up taking another flight instead, airport police said. The situation at the airport unfolded when an individual dressed in a pilot's uniform was seen by an airline employee attempting to enter a New York-bound JetBlue flight through...

Special suite at LAX will let stars and the world’s wealthy glide directly from their limo to their first-class seat without having to interact with the public. Welcome to the 1%’s new airport terminal. Los Angeles international airport on Thursday won approval to build a special terminal to allow celebrities, sports stars and the world’s wealthy to glide directly from their chauffeur-driven limo to their first-class seat without having to interact with any of the general travelling public.

A look at the lavish 100,000-square-foot gigamansion that is under construction on a hilltop in Bel Air for no one in particular.

On January 27, 2013, 21-year-old Elisa Lam stepped off a train from San Diego in downtown Los Angeles, gathered her belongings, and walked to a hostel on Main Street. It was, like most every mid-winter day in LA, sunny and in the mid-60s, the kind of weather that makes people never want to leave. Under such conditions — when a warm, low-angle winter sun softens the entire landscape — it’s possible to not fully absorb the reality that this 54-block section of LA...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to require gun owners to store their firearms in locked containers or install trigger locks when not using them. Under the ordinance, handguns will need to be disabled and kept on the owner's person or within close enough proximity that it is in the owner's control. The measure aims to prevent guns from falling into the hands of children who may accidentally fire the weapons.