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Lomita looks to double its parkland with US Navy deal

The city is in the process of taking over about 6 acres of land where the local little league plays.

Elysian Park welcomes its first monarch butterfly habitat with over 200 milkweed plants

A volunteer is kneeling to plant a milkweed plant. They wear a bucket style hat adorned with monarch butterflies.

At stadium rally, Dodgers set sights on a third World Series consecutive win

Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese man with a medium light skin tone, speaks into a microphone. He's wearing a backwards baseball cap. In the background is his teammates, while the Word Series trophy is in the foreground.

Why this biologist is leading night walks to hunt for bats along the LA River

A man holds a bat bathed in the glow of a flashlight. It is pitch black night behind them.

The rock band of classical music is performing at a cozy LA spot near you

A group of seven individuals posed indoors in an elegant, richly decorated room.
The group are musicians, as several are holding instruments: a cello, a flute, a violin, and another string instrument

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LA nonprofit repairs depleted park lands, one ‘test plot' at a time

The nonprofit Test Plot harnesses community and volunteer power to test out how best to preserve and replenish degraded lands.
When Yue Wa Market closes this week, Chinatown will lose a neighborhood anchor

Grocer Amy Tran survived nearly two decades, but then came rising rent, thefts, pandemic losses and a family crisis.
FOMO? We take you inside the sold-out Cake Picnic in Santa Monica

Nom. Nom. Nom. The event destroyed the internet when it was first announced — and sold out in minutes.
A free art museum is hiding at that huge cemetery in Glendale

Forest Lawn Memorial Park’s latest exhibit fittingly is all about flowers.
Should Runyon Canyon get permanent restrooms? That's the million dollar question

The popular outdoor spot is slated to have permanent restrooms with a price tag of nearly $1 million — and that's not even the most divisive part.
Death is the ‘ultimate truth': Long Beach singer Emily Yacina’s heavy inspirations for new album ‘Veilfall’

Yacina talks blowing up on TikTok for a song she made over a decade ago and processing grief by hosting death salons in L.A.
Hear and get familiar with Tongva plant names while hiking Coldwater Canyon Park

Nonprofit Tree People has worked with Native Americans and university scholars to show the Tongva language as a living culture
LA’s indie film curators pick their must-see fall screenings

Programmers from the Academy Museum, Vidiots and Old Town Music Hall are excited about surrealist classics, spooky silent films and even a “blood rave.”
LeaLA brings four days of authors, art and book selling to LA

The Spanish language book fair is a celebration of words, culture and creativity.
As Black surfers return for competition and community in Huntington Beach, an LAist editor finds her wave

'A Great Day in the Stoke' is a free, daylong event in Orange County billed as 'the largest gathering of Black surfers in history.' The fourth annual festival is set for Saturday in Huntington Beach.
The many ways people get LA wrong

Here's what you told us about the biggest misconceptions you hear — and push back on — about Los Angeles and Southern California.
It’s officially fall, so we asked a local author for SoCal-based book recs

Rufi Thorpe’s "Margo’s Got Money Troubles" is set in Fullerton. We asked the author about her local inspirations and essential SoCal reads.

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