Demographics and daily life

The women set out on a brisk walk every Friday morning — past broken bottles, graffiti, an occasional stray dog and the smell of marijuana.

The last time he advertised one of his apartments, longtime Los Feliz landlord Andre LaFlamme got a request he’d never seen before.

California parents are deciding against vaccinating their kindergarten-age children at twice the rate they did seven years ago, a fact public health experts said is contributing to the reemergence of measles across the state and may lead to outbreaks of other serious diseases.

In the six months since Orange County began issuing concealed weapons permits under a relaxed standard, the number of people licensed to carry guns is close to doubling, and thousands more are awaiting approval.

How does a normal day in Beijing compare with one in Los Angeles?

The pace of growth in Los Angeles County emergency room visits slowed in the early months of Obamacare, according to state records that offer a first local look at a key objective of the healthcare overhaul.

More than 200 miles of Los Angeles streets have been remade in the last five years, with city officials adding bike lanes where the car alone had long been king.

President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.

Jim and Lynda Horan had no idea whom to call when the people who had moved into the foreclosed home next door started trashing the place.

More than two-thirds of people who work for the city of Los Angeles live somewhere else, a Los Angeles Times analysis suggests.

After being criticized for assessing environmental hazards only by the state’s 1,800 ZIP Codes, Cal/EPA issues scores for its 8,000 census tracts.

The two counties contain more than half of the nation’s most heavily crowded neighborhoods, with rising rents far outpacing incomes.

Although there are occasional problems, Lancaster leads Los Angeles County in integration of black and white residents.

Louis Watson, Dwight Taylor and Gregory Davis Jr. were the first casualties of the L.A. riots, mortally wounded in a volley of gunfire early on the evening of April 29, 1992.