Nicole Urso Reed

The USS Iowa, a retired battleship that will become a maritime museum at the Port of Los Angeles, started its final voyage this weekend from Northern California to its new home in San Pedro.

Najmedin Meshkati, a professor and safety expert at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering says that several street crossings along the 7.9-mile light-rail route are awkwardly designed and confusing.

Los Angeles celebrates Memorial Day with parades and observances throughout the city today.

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial kickoff of summer and the start of vacation season. Unfortunately for holiday travelers in Los Angeles County today, the average cost of a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline at $4.299 set a record high for Memorial Day.

Celebrate the recent plastic bag ban in Los Angeles by inviting friends over for a screening of Bag It, a documentary about "regular Colorado guy" Jeb Berrier who makes a simple decision to stop using plastic grocery bags and ends up discovering how plastic everyone's life has become. Plastic appears to be everywhere and used in everything, and Berrier looks at what consumers can do about it.

A man was arrested for allegedly shining a laser at a Pasadena police helicopter and injuring the eyes of an officer on board yesterday

Get inspired as you browse through thousands of artists' sketchbooks at a mobile library rolling through Echo Park this weekend.

If you'd like to spend your Memorial Day weekend strolling through a park and enjoying "specially priced" martinis, you're in luck. Options have been limited, but the Getty's Central Garden will re-open this weekend after being closed since February for maintenance to the walkways and planters.

Los Angeles County once again leads Heal the Bay's "Beach Bummers List" with seven locations out of California's top 10 most polluted beache

Following L.A.'s big announcement this week to ban plastic bags, the city will take another step toward a greener environment with the installation of new LED street lights.

A 32-year-old man was arrested yesterday for allegedly exposing himself to school children at Esther Walter Elementary in Stanton, Orange County.

Not everyone is able to wake up in time to shop for organic goodies at early morning farmers' markets. Fortunately, for the after-hours types, who prefer mingling and wine tasting as they pick out produce, "The Sunset Strip Market" opens June 14.