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Have you ever wondered who Hollywood’s good guys and gals really were? Or what it was like to work for Cecil B. DeMille? Or what about how Errol Flynn hid liquor while filming on location in New Mexico mountains?
A company in United Arab Emirates is looking to haul a giant iceberg from the Antarctic to either Australia or Africa in an effort to provide drinking water to one of these two water-starved places.
Some residents are facing a severe housing affordability crisis in California.
Los Angeles City Council transportation committee refined a new set of regulations Wednesday for electric scooters.
The Oscars announced yesterday that they are looking to add a new category to honor popular films.
At the beginning of this year, Bejuique "Bay" Shambow and Bobby Austin were sleeping in a tent along the Santa Ana riverbed in Orange County. Then, in February, they and hundreds of their fellow campers were kicked out of the encampment by OC officials and given temporary shelter.
A new school year begins in the L.A. Unified School District next week, and superintendent Austin Beutner wants to make sure more students show up for it. Beutner is pushing for increased attendance this year, and the district is putting more resources into their centralized efforts to combat absenteeism. On Wednesday, Beutner visited the homes of a few LAUSD families to promote the effort.
Southern California Gas Co. will pay nearly $120 million under the agreement with state and local government settling suits from the Aliso Canyon methane leak.
Young women with simple pregnancies can safely ask a doctor to induce labor, a study finds. It doesn't increase their risk of needing a C-section after all and can even offer potential benefits.
It's not just people -- plants are also getting scorched by extreme heat across Southern California.
Children's advocates want the American Psychological Association to condemn the tech industry's practice of using persuasive psychological techniques to keep kids glued to their screens.
On Tuesday, Elon Musk announced that he was thinking about taking Tesla private.
As newspapers financially struggle and mass layoffs have become the norm, a Bay Area legislator wants the state to help.
For more than four centuries humans have been able to stay out of the dark, adapting to a new energy resource each time a previous source waned.
The city and county of Los Angeles have reached a tentative settlement with SoCal Gas over the Porter Ranch gas leak in 2015.