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When Angelenos gathered downtown to protest the murder of George Floyd, they started at City Hall and eventually made their way toward the 101. Pastor Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie from the Row ...

In the 1950s, with urban sprawl, the creation of the indoor shopping mall, and the rise of the mega-department store, downtowns across the country began to lose patrons. As downtowns were drained ...

you realize that Taix sold the land to save the restaurant? Like, the options here are 1) Taix stays alive and we get over 100 homes, 24 of which are subsidized affordable housing or 2) Taix shuts ...

But the design in its pure form would not last long. Tar from the La Brea pits began to seep into the reflecting pools, and they were filled within a few years. Alterations and additions further ...

The fires would rage in pockets across the city. In the so-called “Mexican district”—epicenter of the 1924 outbreak of the ancient, dreaded plague—buildings were ripped apart, bulldozed ...

The Getty, California Science Center, and Natural History Museum are all offering online programming for free.

It was the hot, fraught summer of 1963. Every weekend 18-year-old college students Bobbie and Renee Hodges would trek over to the boiling, treeless Torrance housing tract of Southwood Riviera ...

Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance, thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build transgenerational wealth.

Now up for grabs in Altadena is one of the town’s most notable landmarks, the Zane Grey Estate. Sited behind iron gates on a 1.19-acre lot west of Lake Avenue, the Mediterranean Revival-style ...

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...

Twenty-six years ago this morning, Tom Sabol was jolted awake by the thrashing of an earthquake. He lived some 20 miles from the epicenter in suburban Northridge. But he still remembers power ...