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At a ceremony last week, the Weingart Center and Chelsea Investment Corporation marked the completion of a Downtown high-rise which now ranks as the largest permanent supportive housing development in Los Angeles history. The…

Happy Mother’s Day weekend. I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with this week’s Tasting Notes.Sometimes Mom really does know best An order of chilaquiles and a few of the salsas that come to the…

Host Selena Gomez and special guest Raquelle Stevens with Chef Shirley Chung, as seen on ‘Selena + Restaurant,’ season 1. Courtesy Food Network Selena Gomez is leaving her home kitchen behind and…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Saturday, April 27. Here’s what you need to know to start your weekend: Explore L.A.’s most beautiful bridges When I think of cities with famous bridges, Los Angeles…

To the editor: I am writing to to express my dismay at the “ambitious” housing initiative unveiled by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass in her State of the City address. It boils down to begging for donations from the city’s wealthy to purchase…

Last October, the Los Angeles City Planning Department ditched some of the region’s most ambitious actions to tackle racial and economic segregation and confront the ongoing affordability crisis. Two housing initiatives — an Affordable…

During a walk through the Huntington Botanical Gardens with her mother one morning, Brenda Ramirez was alarmed by the sudden squawks, warbles, and screeches of troops of parrots flying overhead at great speed in tight, precise…

When it came to forecasting L.A.’s biggest winter storm of the season, local meteorologists had a secret weapon: experience.For sure, there was plenty of computer modeling available to indicate the Southland was in for a severe — and…

The parking lot is a mess, cars prowling for an empty space, shoppers weaving through the tangle with overloaded carts. “Nightmare” is the word Amber Mooers uses to describe the Sunday turmoil at her local Costco in Alhambra.“There are…

Amid hammering rainfall, viscous mud flows and multiple state emergency declarations, Los Angeles County’s Byzantine flood control system has thus far absorbed near-record precipitation — a feat that officials say was made possible by…