Xiao Qing knows the drill. First, the Communist Party announces an event with great fanfare - a political summit or perhaps a major sports tournament. Then Beijing authorities cancel flights, close schools, order cars off the roads and enact a host of other seemingly arbitrary restrictions that...
The N.W.A biopic "Straight Outta Compton" dominated the box office this weekend with its gritty West Coast story - and the hip-hop music that informs its sensibility and fills its soundtrack. Rap is also driving another theatrical success this summer: the Broadway musical "Hamilton." Call it the...
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Antonio Villaraigosa has kept out of the news in the six months since he opted to skip the race for U.S. Senate.
Welcome back to class. As you go about your first days back in school, we're interested in hearing about your classes -- especially if they're big ones. Students, teachers and parents: Please share information about your class sizes with us, so that we can figure out the truth about this important...
When Mayor Eric Garcetti unveiled his plans for Los Angeles in his State of the City address this spring, he welcomed technologies that have transformed the way many people get around town or snag a room for the night.
Your guide to the California drought from the Los Angeles Times. Subscribe to the newsletter NEWS AND POLICY New normal: Raging wildfires that overtake millions of acres may be the new normal. With hotter temperatures and less rain and snow, there's more fuel to burn. "The physics of that just...
Tom Bradley legacy: In the Aug. 16 California section, a photo caption with a California Politics column about Mayor Tom Bradley described Alison Sotomayor as the maker of the documentary "Bridging the Divide." Sotomayor and Lyn Goldfarb produced and wrote the film, and Goldfarb directed it.
Well before the July 31 trade deadline, Chicago White Sox right-hander Jeff Samardzija was one of the hottest names on the market. The struggling White Sox, many figured, would flip the talented arm and build for the future.
JuJu Smith-Schuster is the heir-apparent to Nelson Agholor as USC's No. 1 receiver.
California lawmakers on Monday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a measure that would extend the jurisdiction of state community colleges beyond campus borders when the institutions are responding to incidents of sexual assault.
Los Angeles city prosecutors have filed criminal charges against four people tied to a towing operation that allegedly engaged in "predatory practices" targeting drivers who left cars at a Northridge parking lot.
Social conservatives have rallied behind bakers and photographers who don't want to provide services for same-sex weddings. But the courts continue to be unsympathetic. The latest rebuff was a decision last week by the Colorado Court of Appeals in the case of Jack C. Phillips, a Christian baker...
Shares of Kite Pharma Inc. rebounded Monday after the company said the death of a clinical trial patient was unrelated to its promising blood cancer treatment.
Petco plans to go public again almost nine years after two private equity firms bought the pet store operator.
The brush fire that exploded in parts of Montebello and spread into unincorporated Los Angeles County before being tamed wasn't the largest burning in a heat wave that baked Southern California, but it may have been the most unusual.
Sam Darnold did not have the benefit of spring practice, as Ricky Town did, but he has shown a strong arm and good mobility in his opportunities during training camp.
The more than 600 rounds that Stockton police fired during a rolling gun battle with bank robbers last year that left a hostage dead by officers' bullets was "excessive" and "unnecessary," an independent review found.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power would credit or refund tens of millions of dollars to customers who were overbilled during the botched rollout of a new billing system, under a proposed class action settlement between the utility and aggrieved customers that was announced Monday.
Pete Carroll got a little too close to the action Friday during the Seahawks' exhibition opener against the Denver Broncos at CenturyLink Field.
Traps set out near Yosemite National Park have failed so far to catch an elusive bear that attacked a 66-year-old Vietnam veteran outside his home in Mariposa County.
A signature element is missing from the latest renderings of the $1.7-billion stadium the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders want to build in Carson.