By Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo Associated Press The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse,

Investigators on Thursday were trying to determine if a gunman was specifically targeting a tiny religious school in Northern California when he opened fire and critically wounded two kindergartners before killing himself. The man may have targeted Feather ...

Nearly three out of 10 US drugstores that were open during the previous decade had closed by 2021, new research shows. Black and Latino neighborhoods were most vulnerable to the retail pharmacy closures, which can chip away at already-limited care options ...

By Devan Sipher It’s not often that New York City and Santa Monica are linked together in the same sentence. But last Saturday, the two were literally linked by Ryo Murata, a 25-year-old from Numazu,

Olivia Legowiecki, 11, dancing as Side Angel in Southland’s longest-running production of classic ballet Perennial holiday favorite “The Nutcracker,” performed by the Westside Ballet of Santa Monica,

A local startup has developed a unique software application that allows an AI to “get to know you” and offer positive mental health advice.

The latest arrival to L.A.’s media district is home to songs by Beyonce, The Beatles and Ed Sheeran, among many others.

Now, new research clearly spells out the risk factors for developing dementia, and even helpfully breaks them down into strong and weak predictors of the disease. Here’s what the study found, plus what brain health experts recommend for lowering your dementia risk.

The U.S. debut of abstract painter Zaachariaha Fielding, plus the week's biggest arts and culture news and an ode to South Coast Rep co-founder Martin Benson.

In this politically charged era, there’s one thing both parties agree on: the benefits of high school career pathways. With strong bipartisan support, career and technical education programs are poised to be a centerpiece of education policy over the ...