It was during the Victorian era, from 1837 to 1901, that Los Angeles transformed from a small, dusty Mexican outpost into a Gilded Age American boom town. Thousands of homes were built during this ...

In 1978, Los Angeles agreed to host the 1984 Summer Olympics and, as described in the official report of the games, a small, secretive organizing committee formed to oversee the delivery and ...

Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air How much do the Santa Ana winds affect us, and how much are we affecting them?

One photographer painstakingly reshot old photos of the once-volatile waterway.

The 20 most iconic buildings in Los Angeles, mapped From the Stahl House to the Watts Towers, these structures help tell the story of LA ...

West Adams Boulevard runs through some of the most sought-after neighborhoods of 20th century Los Angeles. Doctors, successful entrepreneurs, lawyers, and well-off widows commissioned houses here ...

Development in the Valley: 11 big projects poised to alter the region From Chatsworth to North Hollywood, these are the mega mixed-users headed to the Valley ...

13 of the best noir films set in Los Angeles Laced with corruption in the 1940s and ’50s, LA became the birthplace for the literary and cinematic style ...

From red Spanish Colonial rooftops to vibrant mosaics to rose pink bathroom vanities, Southern California is filled with tile. Whether big or small, monochromatic or multi-hued, tiles are ...

Moving to a new city can be hard, especially an unwieldy, disjointed, sprawling metropolis like Los Angeles. One thing that helps ties all Angelenos together? Talking about things we know! We talk ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...

The destructive force of Rebuild LA How the nonprofit created after the 1992 ‘riots’ failed the community it was supposed to help ...