Lila Seidman

More than 900 Californians — including 15 children — have succumbed to the flu this season in what has turned out to be one of the worst surges of the respiratory illness in years, according to a report released Friday […]

Two Riverside police officers are facing charges after a viral video surfaced last month showing an officer smashing a resident’s skateboard while another officer looks on. Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez announced Friday that the county district attorney decided to

Wildlife officials have collared a dozen gray wolves in Northern California in an effort to better understand and manage the species that has made a comeback in the state after being extirpated a century ago. There are now more satellite-collared

Charles Shyer, an Oscar-nominated writer, director and producer whose credits include “Father of the Bride,” “Private Benjamin” and other celebrated comedies, has died. After a brief illness, Shyer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to the

An investigation is underway after a private jet carrying a college basketball team was ordered to stop as it neared a runway where another aircraft was taking off at Los Angeles International Airport. Around 4:30 p.m. Friday, air traffic controllers

The fight to save Whittier’s trees has grown new roots. A preservation group has sued the southeastern Los Angeles County city over its plan to raze more than 100 trees as part of a redesign of its commercial center, marking

A mountain lion spotted at the edge of Griffith Park this spring spurred excitement — and concern — among Angelenos invested in the region’s hulking feline inhabitants. Would he stay and become the successor to celebrity puma P-22, who reigned

Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday moved to add the monarch butterfly to its endangered species roster, citing decades of steep population decline of the striking black-and-orange insect. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the once-common monarch as threatened

Griffith Park’s late celebrity mountain lion P-22 took the night shift to avoid hordes of hikers, bikers and dawdlers who frequented his home in the heart of Los Angeles — and it’s a pattern replicated by other pumas in the

Wolves are continuing to make a California comeback. State wildlife officials have confirmed the presence of two new gray wolf packs in Northern California, and estimate there are now at least 70 of the endangered apex predators roaming the state