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For residents of North Shore, getting around on public transportation can be tough. There is only one bus line serving the city, located about 20 miles south of Coachella, and it comes only once every three hours.
L.A. City Councilmember Estelle Lawton Lindsey made history in 1915 when she served as acting mayor for 36 hours.
Proyecto Jardín, a local community garden in Boyle Heights, has been a central part of their community for 17 years and is now fighting a recent eviction.
Angelenos use Santa Catalina Island as a smog barometer, but few know how its pristine natural beauty abided against all odds.
The soul of this famous art colony can be found in the artists who have been and continue to be inspired by its natural beauty.
Los Angeles was a town under military rule when gunfire greeted the rising sun on the Fourth of July, 1847.
In 1851, California’s first Anglo-American governor stood before the state legislature and declared the genocide of Native Californians a sad inevitability.
Radio vastly expanded the reach of Los Angeles personalities like "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson and "Fighting Bob" Shuler. Their radio ministries were controversial, however.
Celebrity preachers, fundamentalist bible schools, Pentecostalism – these were among the defining features of L.A.'s early-20th-century religious landscape.
When Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared into the Pacific in 1926, Los Angeles grieved. Five weeks later, the larger-than-life evangelist resurfaced in an Arizona border town.
L.A. is the golden home of America’s queer rights movement, the site of several uprisings and protests that predate New York's historic Stonewall riots.
William Mulholland began flooding the meadowlands of Ivanhoe Canyon in November 1907.