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LA Observed columnist Bill Boyarsky retired from the Los Angeles Times after serving as national political writer, City-County Bureau chief, city editor and columnist. A former vice president of the ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

The year was 1972. Bernie Sanders was running for governor of Vermont, as the candidate of the Liberty Union Party. Reporter David Haldane was there to interview Sanders for the Vermont People’s Voice ...

Mt. Waterman in 2010, via Facebook. Mt. Waterman is the closest ski area to Los Angeles, located on Angeles Crest well east of Mt. Wilson, but it hasn't operated since the winter of 2010-2011. Now, ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

For her NPR piece on the Day of the Dead celebration at Hollywood Forever cemetery, Los Angeles correspondent Mandalit del Barco hooked up with El Mariachi Manchester. Their thing is they cover songs ...

Sunday's New York Times revives a classic Los Angeles sports media incident — the time that KLAC radio reporter Paul Olden asked Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda what he thought of Cubs' left fielder Dave ...

Sam Simon's death was announced today on Facebook, without further details, by the foundation created in his name. He was 59 and had learned in 2012 that he had colon cancer. It is with much sadness ...

When we checked in last October on Doug Dowie, the former Daily News managing editor who went to prison in the Fleishman-Hillard case had just launched a new Los Angeles based PR business. The new ...

Austin Beutner was once the lowest-paid deputy mayor in the Antonio Villaraigosa administration at City Hall — a dollar a year, working on economic development. Now the publisher of the Los Angeles ...