The Los Angeles Fire Department said the fire near Griffith Observatory has been contained. LAFD also said that 92 firefighters were on scene to battle the fire that spread to about 6 acres.

Griffith Observatory has long been a landmarksitting high on Mt. Hollywood, overlooking the Los Angeles basin, not far from the infamous "Hollywood" sign.

The idea of progress on the pool is comforting, Dodge said, given the idle state of the park’s pony rides and merry-go-round, ...

A brush fire was contained near Griffith Observatory in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, officials said. The fire was reported at 2:43 p.m. and was burning a small amount of brush and ...

The Observatory has produced a step-by-step on how to properly download the map. The Observatory, perched high above Los Angeles in scenic Griffith Park, was dedicated in May 1935.

Griffith Jenkins Griffith desired to make science more accessible to the public and he gifted $100,000 to the city of Los Angeles to build an Observatory on top of Mount Hollywood.

Los Angeles’s weather means that the telescope operates for more days out of the year than one in, say, Berlin or Philadelphia. (A reminder to Angelenos be grateful for clear skies.) ...

Lecturers who narrate the planetarium shows at Griffith Observatory and who took steps late last year to form a union, this week have been granted union recognition by the City of Los Angeles ...

Observatory Lecturers are part-time, at-will employees of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks, who work at Griffith Observatory. Description of duties: An Observatory Lecturer ...

Happy 80th, Griffith Observatory. We know that you're constantly looking at the sky from your Griffith Park perch, but consider that we're constantly looking at you, from all points of the city.