The 72-year-old former mayor (Pasadena), city manager (Ventura, Azusa, Santa Monica) and deputy mayor (Los Angeles) returned for a third stint at Los Angeles City Hall in 2022, bringing a depth of experience to political neophyte and then-newly elected City Controller Kenneth Mejia’s office as Mejia’s chief deputy.

BLACKPINK launched the U.S. Deadline Tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The setlist featured "Jump," "How You Like That" and more hit songs.

After an immigration arrest in Culver City, cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz created a painting that’s gone viral — and emerged as a flashpoint in the debate over immigration enforcement.

Over the last half century or so, millions more people have moved to greater Los Angeles, settling in increasingly far-flung reaches of the desert and in the mountains, requiring more faucets, toilets and shower heads, producing more garbage and more gridlock on the 405 freeway, reinforcing all the clichés about excess and sprawl.

Los Angeles Dodgers top prospect Josue de Paula hit a massive three-run home run on Saturday afternoon as part of the Major League Baseball Futures Game at Truist Park in Atlanta. The home run came off Chicago White Sox prospect Noah Schultz.

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July 10. 562-570-3233, shorturl.at/OT0l6. Book Soup: Shelley Fisher Fishkin discusses and signs “Jim — The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade,” 7 p.m. July 10. Ross Halperin discusses and signs “Bear Witness – The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land,

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing man and his 2-month-old son. William Alexander Laster and William Alexander Laster Jr. were last seen around 6 a.