L.A. Times TV editor Matt Brennan interviews 'Making the Cut' and 'Project Runway' star Tim Gunn about his mentorship style.

L.A. Times TV editor Matt Brennan interviews 'Making the Cut' and 'Project Runway' star Tim Gunn about his mentorship style.

A former LAUSD teacher says that realities of sanitation in the district made closing schools absolutely necessary.

It isn't for lack of trying by teachers that some students aren't able to fully access the LAUSD's online learning curriculum.

Coronavirus closures are giving school districts an opportunity to evaluate their online learning efforts and how important teachers are to those programs.

The attorney general suggests that he's in sync with Trump's 'liberation' tweets.

Hotels need to take in homeless people if they don't want the coronavirus to spread.

With his fingers all over the White House's catastrophic coronavirus policy, Jared Kushner is treating pandemic mayhem as a mere publicity challenge.

Accusations of sexual impropriety by powerful men should be taken seriously.

Despite their "essential" status during the coronavirus lockdown, frontline retail and delivery workers are among the least paid and least protected.

It's a relief for many that the governor didn't order all state beaches and parks closed, as expected. But we're still waiting for a smart, comprehensive approach for Californians to safely enjoy the state's abundant natural resources.

Some antibody tests for COVID-19 have unacceptably high rates of false positives.

Voluntary response rates to the 2020 census reveal social inequality — and spotlight how crucial an accurate count is to Los Angeles and California.

Los Angeles County supervisors seem to enjoy their low-tech world where the coronavirus emergency is an excuse to keep the public quiet.

Several medical trade groups are asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom for extraordinary immunity for their triage decisions.

California starts to reopen from coronavirus lockdown. But if we relax vigilance now, we could go back to shutdowns again.

Congress decided that all new health insurance policies should cover preventive care. The ability to deny one type -- birth control for women -- on religious grounds should be a rare exception.

Wildlife scientists say we can bring our new delight in nature to the other side of the pandemic, if we're willing to keep the romance alive.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who has dominated Israeli politics for a quarter of a century, survives yet another challenge. Too bad for Israel.

If colleges have to pay out millions in tuition refunds because of coronavirus, it could mean higher tuition and reduced financial aid in coming years.

If the messages from anti-lockdown protests sound familiar, that's because the same people who protested a law to tighten vaccine laws in California are organizing the marches on Sacramento.

This is no time for LAPD to "manage" public anger. It is a time to come clean.

In a rare bit of reasonable regulatory activity by the Trump administration, new rules governing sexual assault accusations at colleges strike the right balance -- for the most part.

The stage version of 'Fleabag,' starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is streaming on Amazon Prime for a limited time to support coronavirus relief efforts.

The Huntington Library's acquisition of slavery and abolition papers provides a missing puzzle piece to one community's questions about its past.

Van Gogh or Klimt, anyone? The new Animal Crossing Art Generator allows you to bring artworks from the museum's archives into your imaginary worlds.

Laid-off Broad museum staffers, most of them part-time, will remain on payroll through Friday; the curatorial team will remain in place.

Chicano Park in San Diego's Barrio Logan, known for its murals, began with student-led occupation. Right-wing extremists object but the site is historic.

Chicano Park in San Diego's Barrio Logan, known for its murals, began with student-led occupation

Coronavirus stay-at-home orders shut down Judson Studios for the first time in 123 years, just as a new book celebrates its storied stained glass.

Richard Nelson's new Apple Family play opens on YouTube to confront the pandemic. What can storytelling offer us right now?

The director of a scrap tyre yard has been handed a suspended prison sentence for a series of fire safety offences after an emergency fire door was nailed shut in a building where workers were living

Fire crews attended around 160 weather related incidents in a 12 hour period.

London Fire Brigade celebrated their Volunteer Cadet Instructors at an award ceremony and called for more to join up to help run their Cadets scheme.

Mexican officials have begun to cave, despite warnings from health authorities

California on Monday sued two gasoline trading firms, alleging they took advantage of a 2015 refinery explosion in Torrance to improperly drive up the price at the pump.

Tourism officials estimate 75% of Los Angeles travel-related workers have been furloughed.

The revival of Tokyo Gardens' classic chashu shumai has been a much-needed bright spot during the pandemic — and a reminder of the resiliency of L.A.'s Asian American community.

Portland's beloved indie bookstore Powell's Books rehired more than 100 employees after seeing a surge in online orders.

DePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 children's books, sold nearly 25 million copies and had his books translated into more than 20 languages.

Author James Patterson is donating $500,000 to help indie bookstores across the country. For many L.A. booksellers, that could be a life saver.

Patricia Bosworth, an actor who went on to chronicle lives including Jane Fonda's, Marlon Brando's and her own, died from coronavirus. She was 86.

How Robert Kolker came to write "Hidden Valley Road," about the Galvin family and the disease that tore through them, with such empathy.

Sunday is when Tiger Woods made golf history, but Saturday is when he won the 2019 Masters and reestablished himself as golf's king.

Writer turns to guided journal for Michelle Obama's "Becoming" to grapple with anxiety and cabin fever during coronavirus crisis.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama will be reading children's books in a weekly series of videos for Penguin Random House and PBS Kids through May 11.

What crime novelist Laura Lippman is reading and watching in quarantine

Rishi Reddi's "Passage West" plumbs an important story of Indian immigrant farmers, but isn't quite up to the task as fiction

Earlier this week, Bookshop.org hit $1 million in earnings that will go to bookstores endangered by the coronavirus outbreak.

A brilliant, mercurial and often rebellious poet and critic, would-be translator of Jorge Luis Borges and mentor to John Darnielle and many others.