Sharon McNary

We ran and biked the whole thing, meeting nature-loving Angelenos along the way.

A use-it-up strategy helped Long Beach health officials move through the first phase of seniors and health care workers and make the vaccine available to other groups of workers.

City officials decided to vaccinate as many people as possible with a first dose rather than hold back vaccines for second shots.

Southern California Edison wants to keep its power equipment from starting fires, after recently agreeing to pay more than $2 billion to settle damage claims from the Thomas and Woolsey Fires. But state regulators say it's relying too heavily on power outages to prevent them.

The way California distributed $500 million in federal pandemic aid meant big cities like L.A. and Long Beach got lots more money per resident than smaller cities.

From $12 per resident up to more than $173, cities got very different allotments of federal CARES Act money to deal with pandemic expenses.

The Bobcat Fire that burned through the San Gabriel Mountains in September destroyed 17 primitive cabins in the Angeles National Forest above Arcadia, consuming vacation homes that had been held in the same families for generations.

The Bobcat Fire burned 17 of the 81 primitive recreational cabins in Big Santa Anita Canyon, destroying homes that contained generations of family memories. Some families will face a challenge to rebuild.

The Valley Generating Station had been leaking methane, and although it’s been fixed, its days may be numbered.

Los Angeles is giving away $500 grants to 100,000 low-income households to help with utility and other bills, but you have to apply by Nov. 22.