Read the memo: LA Times hires again Read the memo: LA Times losing big on search traffic Gustavo Arellano, many others join LA Times staff Here's who the LA Times has newly hired* New seasons of SoCal ...

He says the paper's newsroom and offices will move to a new "campus" he is building out on property Soon-Shiong owns in El Segundo, the small South Bay city adjacent to LAX and LA's giant Hyperion ...

An evening LA Times story reconstructing the stunningly quick sale to Soon-Shiong quotes Eli Broad, who had previously expressed dismay about the paper's decline and out-of-town ownership. "The Los ...

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First, a little background. Dating to even before Tribune Company ownership of the LA Times, the cost cutters looked for a way to reduce the huge commitment on the books to pay for vacation days ...

Willie Nelson, beardless and braidless, at the Palomino in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images at LA Magazine's website Before everyone forgets that LA's music lore includes North Hollywood, Los ...

Over the past few years, the stand’s regular client base has steadily declined....Emptying storefronts in Westwood and a media shift to focus on more online content contributed to the newsstand’s ...

Republican deputy DA Elan Carr (21.9%) finished first as you would have expected on the long ballot in the 33rd congressional district. The Democrats split up the rest if the vote, and in the end ...

When I visited Palm Springs in April, just ahead of the Coachella festival hordes, even I could detect the desert city has taken on a fresher vibe than the previous mix of sun-baked retirees, gay and ...

Dean Baquet, the former editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times who was pushed out during the worst of the Tribune Company manhandling of the LAT, today was named executive editor of the New York ...

Ramona Gardens is the public housing project in Boyle Heights where African American tenants have reported tensions with Latino renters, who are the majority in the place. After midnight on Monday ...

Mayor Eric Garcetti's staff posts a lot of Facebook photos and Twitpics about the boss's week. Before he was elected, however, Garcetti himself was a busy tweeter and poster of photos: I picked up his ...