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The chief meteorologist for CBS 2 and KCAL 9 will be the LAPD's new public information director.
The set rolled out on Monday's 5 p.m. news on CBS LA. Photos include an interview area and backstage green room.
Steve Lopez has written a lovely column on his friend, the Skid Row organizer and housing advocate and co-founder of the LAMP Community.
As of last night, officials had found one body burned to death in a car and counted 18 structures destroyed.
I tell you, it's hard to take a photo in this town without a palm tree showing up.
Villaraigosa talked down speculation that he might end the week as chair of the
Democratic National Committee.
"Don’t use your social media feed to pan or praise candidates, parties or their positions," a memo from the managing editor reminds reporters.
NBC 4 led in the local Emmy count. Fox News vs women. Trump in the media.
Homeland Security agents demanded that Maria Abi-Habib, who covers the Middle East, surrender her cellphones. She details the encounter on Facebook.
It has been 10 years since the owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press declared war on her own newsroom staff.
Six months for his crimes is not enough, U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson rules.
NPR announced on Monday the longtime "Morning Edition" host based here in Culver City will step down after the election.
Durslag wrote about sports for the Hearst newspapers in Los Angeles from the time he was a freshman at USC in 1939 until the HerEx closed in 1989.
The highway in the San Gabriel Mountains lets you drive 66 miles through "some of the most difficult terrain in the U.S."
Ken Doctor hears that Tronc chairman Michael Ferro may be considering his options.
A second veteran member of the New York Times bureau in Los Angeles is taking a buyout offer to leave the paper.
Gary Cypres' shrine to sports history (mostly baseball) is right up there with Eli Broad's Grand Avenue temple of art as proof of one man's passion.
See was "the defining voice for a certain kind of California experience in the mid-’70s and 1980s."
Michael Cieply, the longtime anchor of New York Times Hollywood coverage in the Los Angeles bureau, is joining Deadline as the executive editor.
He joined the Saigon bureau of Associated Press in 1965, and has been a fixture in the LA bureau.
The furnishings, seats, office equipment, scoreboard and even the hockey dasher boards of the old LA Sports Arena go at auction on Wednesday.
Numbers are up enough on the newly lengthened Expo Line to stop the decline in rail ridership.
Donald Trump piñatas are a staple at shops in the Los Angeles piñata district these days.
After 3,304 morning newsletters since 2007, he's off to start a new media company with partners from Politico.
Also a City Hall scoop by Variety, obits on Sydney Schanberg, job moves and more.
This is the kind of completely new development turn for Los Angeles that should get a thorough debate in the political arena but that rarely does.
Scully's secret weapon is stage manager Boyd Robertson, who stands to his right and has been with Scully 28 years.
LA journalist and author Michael Krikorian has posted a nice piece on encountering an interesting fellow in the gas pumps at the 76 station just above the Santa Monica Freeway.
Shooters apparently firing semi-automatic weapons hit at least 11 police officers in Dallas tonight at an otherwise calm protest over police shootings of unarmed suspects in other cities.
New mountain lion kittens have been tagged in two litters in the Santa Susana Mountains.
It's Kathryn Barger and Darrell Park in the 5th district.
The demise of KPFK's "Deadline LA" media analysis show was greatly exaggerated.
Steve Greenberg's cartoon on the Central Coast plant.
Clinton fundraises in LA
Jim Henson Studios on La Brea became a presidential campaign stop on Thursday.
Brown declares disaster area
The natural gas leak above Porter Ranch now qualifies for various government actions. Story
Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter closes out 2015 with productions downtown and on the Westside.
