Call it generational evolution, a slow but inexorable force. With Los Angeles, it began after a series of dry spells. For most of the 20th century, through droughts and floods, California clung to ...

Three adults, a 4-year-old child and a dog somehow wound up in the Los Angeles River on Sunday afternoon, and the dog and one of the adults did not survive, officials said.

The above-ground pool recall follows the drowning deaths of nine children between the ages of 22 months and 3 years old after ...

Ian James is a reporter who focuses on water and climate change in California and the West. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2021, he was an environment reporter at the Arizona Republic and ...