Closing the labor-force gap is the only fix for the housing crisis
America’s housing crisis is no longer a looming threat: It’s here. Across the country, home prices and rents have climbed...
It’s 43 hours from L.A. to Chicago. These train people like it that way
We were well into our journey from Los Angeles to Chicago, surrounded by cornfields and grain elevators, when the train...
L.A.’s Scouting troops lost their camp in the Palisades. Now they’re working to heal the land
Elliot Copen, 17, was worried the Scouting America camp he had visited dozens of times in an undeveloped canyon of...
How California is failing its Latino population
Few states so self-righteously proclaim their commitment to helping minorities like California does. Gov. Gavin Newsom rarely misses an opportunity...
A desert theater’s comeback: Palm Springs historic treasure reopens after $34-million renovation
Hollywood loves a good comeback story, and Palm Springs has one for the books. In 1936, the dusty desert town’s...
I called it a piece of junk. It turned out to be a Frank Gehry L.A. masterpiece
The early 1980s Los Angeles of my childhood always felt like a place where you could brush against greatness and...
Academic lectures have invaded L.A. bars and tickets are selling out in minutes
On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a...
Why tiny Curacao could be the Cinderella team of the 2026 World Cup
The tiny island of Curacao is the smallest country to ever reach a FIFA World Cup, an honor it earned...
I tried the $430 tuning fork facial. Here’s how it went
I genuinely love a good facial — the ritual of it, the permission to lie still for 90 minutes, the...
The punk artist Vaginal Davis looks back on her L.A. roots — and her inevitable break from the city
Vaginal Creme Davis has long been a star. “I’ve always thought of myself as a success,” she said during a...
Americans still have a choice whether to let the nation turn authoritarian
How do people used to basic freedoms acquiesce to regimes of domination? When government authorities use the formidable violence at...
‘Extreme’ cloud bank for 16 days and counting in Central Valley; record-cold December possible
Across much of Central California, a cluster of stubborn clouds has lingered for more than two weeks, bringing periods of...
Earthquake swarms keep rattling the Bay Area. What’s going on?
Dozens of small earthquakes have shaken the San Francisco Bay Area over the last month, rattling nerves and raising fears...
The battle for street parking in L.A.: One man wages war through TikTok requests
Joey Morales’ Ford SUV stopped along a quiet residential street in South L.A., its headlights shining on what would be...
High schools bullying is up, attendance down as ICE raids sow ‘climate of distress,’ study says
High school principals across California and nationwide say raids by Immigration, Customs and Enforcement have provoked a “climate of distress”...
