Melody Petersen is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, writing about business and healthcare. Previously, she wrote about the pharmaceutical industry for the New York Times. She won a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Southern California residents are frustrated by the sky-high ticket prices for the upcoming 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Many Los Angelenos are undecided in the city’s mayoral election, something one expert called “unusual” considering voters will cast their ballots in less than two months. A poll from the UCLA Luskin ...

In Los Angeles, scientists are delighted to decode one of the richest fossil records on Earth A visitor gazes at a statue of a giant short-faced bear. At around 11 feet tall, the Ice Age animal was ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County is experiencing a record number of flea-borne typhus cases, and nearly 90% of patients have had to be hospitalized. Typhus is a bacterial disease spread by ...

Now that tickets are on sale for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, prices are causing some sticker shock. Alberto Belli, an LA-based director whose credits include a Disney Christmas movie, posted ...

Angelenos trying to snag 2028 Summer Olympics tickets hit hurdles of their own, as the event’s glitchy website spewed errors, frustrating fans and delaying purchases. Organizers for LA28 announced in ...

While the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games are still a ways off, fans are already queuing up for tickets to the dozens of events scheduled around (mostly) Southern California. So far, though, the ...

Crews stopped the forward progress of a brush fire that prompted evacuations in the northern Los Angeles County community of Acton on Friday, fire officials said. As of Friday night, the wind-driven ...

Ahead of the last Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, I recall flipping through the rainbow-colored pages of the ticket information packet with a mail-in order form as a kid, excited about the ...

Tickets for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics go on sale starting April 9, but you may get the opportunity to score tickets sooner if you’re considered a local. The presale for Los Angeles locals, ...

There are now just two months until the Los Angeles primary election slated for June 2, setting the stage for a high-stakes mayor’s race. The candidates are in full campaign-mode as they attempt to ...