About 1 in 5 CA schools has no air conditioning. Underfunded schools struggle to keep cool as aging systems break down and heat intensifies.

Officials are searching for actress Naya Rivera after her 4-year-old son was found alone on a boat she rented Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

Multiple agencies mobilized a mass casualty response after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, sending multiple people into the Patapsco River below.

After 23 years, the humble elotero Andres Santos has hawked his final kernel. He headed home to Mexico to chase that grandest dream of all: love.

The number of people with COVID-19 inside ICUs has broken records for 16 consecutive days.

Gracie Anne Muehlberger, 15, died two hours after being shot at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, officials said Friday.

The pandemic has affected Latinos from all walks of life, attacking their families, their health as well as their financial well-being. The impacts will be felt for generations, and have implications...

Driving around Koreatown in the passenger seat of his daughter’s car, Hi Duk Lee peered out the window, in awe of how much the neighborhood had changed in half a century.

71-year-old Rafael Ramos' customers are almost entirely elderly immigrants. Like the rest of publishing, he's been hit hard by the digital revolution.

Many speculated that singer Rihanna might be pregnant again after her halftime performance at the 2023 Super Bowl. They were right

Coronavirus: As the pandemic emerged, so did the story of Lupe Hernandez, a Bakersfield nurse who was reported to have invented hand sanitizer. Her story has become an urban legend.

Though far past their heyday, swap meets in Southern California remain vibrant hubs of commerce — a working-class, in-person EBay. But they’re under siege fr...

"The days go pretty late" for Mayor Robert Garcia, who must guide Long Beach through a global health crisis while mourning two family members.

Ryan Lawler saw the dorsal fin in the distance, swaying slowly side to side, and assumed it was a great white shark.

Even with California on schedule to fully reopen in June, Whittier Boulevard business owners fear their customers will not return.

The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on Latinos — and on the mortuaries that help families say goodbye to their loved ones

In a new world where crowds mean danger, swap meets and the vendors who make them run struggle to stay afloat.

Success seemed within reach for two immigrants — until the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, a $10 bill in Glenda Valenzuela’s purse can feel like a godsend.

Miranda Megill admits that when she opened a vegan restaurant in 2007, it wasn’t without a few pangs of guilt that she may have helped push Silver Lake's famous gentrification along.

Verity Health has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to close its doors, and while no date has been given, staff are packing up.

Episode · The Times: Essential news from the L.A. Times · COVID-19 has been devastating for everyone, but in the United States, there’s one demographic hit particularly hard: Latinos. According to...

Tina Bejarano gave birth at age 17 to a baby girl she believed had died. She learned she actually has a son, who is alive and well, with a child of his own. The new family will meet for the first...

There are 150 L.A. Unified schools in "very high need" of green space and shade, mostly in South and East Los Angeles, where parks are scarce.

The Los Angeles Lowrider Community, a coalition of 15 car clubs in the region, formed about a year ago to clean up the image of their scene.

The celebration holds special significance for an Eastside community that lacks safe queer spaces compared with West Hollywood and other areas.

They come to this 11-block strip of land framed by electricity towers to feel the soil between their fingers, to watch the plants grow, to marvel at the orange butterflies, to remind themselves of...

As in his other campaigns, De León has leaned heavily on his personal story, hoping that voters will relate to someone who has struggled as they have.

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