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Puma cubs P-70, P-71, P-72 and P-73 were found recently by the Santa Monica Mountains lion study. See below for more. National Park Service photo. Our occasional roundup of media news, notes and ...

Rep. Adam Schiff took part in a Saturday morning media event at Silver Lake Reservoir and heard lots of words of support for his watchdogging of President Trump and the Russian election meddling ...

Prominent LA architect Thom Mayne razed the longtime Cheviot Hills home and work space of Ray Bradbury to build his own home. Mayne promised the neighborhood and fans a “very, very modest” house that ...

The second mountain lion cub left behind when mother lion P-39 was killed on the 118 freeway in Santa Susana Pass in December has also now been found dead. P-51, an eight-month old female, was the ...

This week the New York Times is testing the concept of a morning newsletter on California news. This morning's first one, written by Los Angeles bureau reporter Ian Lovett, starts with an update on ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Magdi Hanna runs one of the few workshops dedicated to saving jukeboxes. Photo: Saul Gonzalez BBC World Service picks up a piece by Saul Gonzalez on a Pico Boulevard shop dedicated to the repair and ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

Piece by Shinique Smith in the breezeway of the new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery space. Photo by Iris Schneider. Previously at LA Observed: Shinique Smith visits Charles White Elementary on ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...