Nancy Chen

A historian takes readers on a visual tour of buildings torn down from the 19th and 20th centuries in “ Los Angeles Before The Freeways: Images of an Era 1850-1950 .”

People whose homes survived in the Eaton Fire area face uncertainty as they figure out what it will take to return. Not all want to live amid the rubble.

After the devastating fires last month, KCRW’s Adria Kloke makes a few trips back to get essentials from her home in the Palisades.

Alex Ballantyne, the subject of the LA documentary “ Possible Selves ,” compares losing his home in the fires to his feelings while in foster care.

With a $350,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation, The LA County Public Library intends to expand social services and bolster community programs.

Kiso has opened at the site of the oldest gay bar in the urban core. It’s part of a renaissance of queer spaces in Downtown and across the city.

Spring is usually peak poppy season for Southern California, but limited winter showers dampened the flower species’ chances.

Locals are frustrated as scenes of open drug use and misery play out day and night in a central LA park. Officials pledge outreach and cleanup.

The Eaton Fire destroyed Masjid Al-Taqwa, but during Ramadan, the community still finds ways to gather and provide a sense of normalcy.