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Working with Japanese American woodworker Toshi Kawabata of Barrban Woodworks, Lizabeth Altounian realized her dream of living in a Kyoto-style dwelling, on a small scale.

Though the city looms large in the pop-culture psyche as the capital of conspicuous consumption, you can explore the famed patch of real estate without breaking the bank.

Patients typically spent roughly seven hours at the Loma Linda emergency room before leaving — the third-longest duration nationwide, a Times analysis found.

The Silicon Valley town of Portola Valley faces a financial emergency and state sanction after years of attempting to block affordable housing.

Using contraband cellphones and women that he called his ‘wives,’ a California prisoner oversaw a sprawling drug ring that spread death and addiction to the most remote corners of Alaska, prosecutors say.

California fails to monitor for a host of toxic chemicals pervading the cannabis supply chain

Two Silver Lake firms, Lehrer Architects and Arquitectura y Dise?o, designed the Gower Court Mausoleum as a monumental, garden-filled alternative for a city moving away from in-ground burials.

The final running of Thursday Night Thunder at soon-to-close Irwindale Speedway brought out about 5,000 attendees, the organizer said, and the drag racers put on a show.

The U.S. Forest Service has closed all trails to Mt. Baldy’s peak until December 2025 to help the ecosystem recover from a fire. Hikers are defying the closures.

Forty years ago, Michael Anthony Cox was convicted of the murders of three girls in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Years later, the two main witnesses at his trial, also teenagers, recanted, saying police had pressured them into false stories. So why is Cox still on death row?