Mr. Ulin is a professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of “Sidewalking: Coming to Terms With Los Angeles.” He wrote from Los Angeles. This essay is part of a series ...

Lil Nas X will remain locked up through the weekend following his bizarre tirade and arrest Thursday. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s booking records show him still listed as an inmate ...

One person was injured Friday afternoon in a shooting near the El Sereno Recreation Center. The shooting was reported at about 1:30 p.m. in the 4700 block of Klamath Street in the community northeast ...

A shooting and stabbing outside of the popular Westfield Topanga shopping center in the San Fernando Valley left one woman hospitalized on Thursday afternoon. It happened at around 12:20 p.m. in the ...

An analysis of census data shows more immigrants are leaving the U.S. than arriving. The number of immigrants in the country has dropped from 53.3 million to 51.9 million. The analysis did not ...

Friends and family of Sheylla Gutierrez held a vigil for the mother of three outside Lancaster City Hall after authorities found her remains in the Angeles National Forest. "She's going to be missed ...

Security camera video showed the husband of a missing Antelope Valley woman found dead in Angeles National Forest dragging what appeared to be a large object from the apartment where the couple lived ...

Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. The year 2025 is turning out to be a busy one for the Matu ...

An LGBTQ resource center in Los Angeles has been repeatedly targeted by an unknown vandal tossing bags of dog feces, many of which land on the building’s front entrance ledge. The center, Mi SELA — a ...

For the past several months, volunteers and community members arriving at the Mi SELA youth center in the city of Bell have encountered a putrid smell. The source? Bags of discarded dog feces. For the ...

Local leaders are speaking out, condemning the unidentified people who’ve thrown dozens of bags of dog poop at an LGBTQ+ youth center in the city of Bell recently. Mi SELA, an LGBTQ+ youth resource ...

The Los Angeles Lakers are heading into a new season led by coach JJ Redick and two of the NBA’s biggest stars. LeBron James and Luka Doncic are looking to bring an NBA title to Los Angeles, which ...