In all, the state received some 3 million surgical masks made by BYD, a company known for building electric vehicles with an assembly plant in Los Angeles County.

Millions of homeowners have signed up for mortgage forbearance programs. But there is confusion and concern over how they will pay back what they owe.

Mortgage companies are letting home owners with coronavirus-related financial hardships delay payments, but the process is confusing

Amid a public health crisis, trust in governments is rising, while trust in businesses, and in particular, CEOs has fallen sharply, a report says.

Justices hear a dispute over Trump administration rules to limit contraception requirements. Hospitalized Ruth Bader Ginsburg calls in.

The prestigious Hoag Hospital wants to exit its partnership with a Catholic healthcare system.

Along with Henry Segerstrom and Donald Bren, he helped make the OC more cosmopolitan.

These restaurants and wine shops are offering beer, wine and sake flights and accompanying virtual tastings.

The program will provide $66 a day per senior in funding for daily meals. Newsom said the effort will launch immediately, focused on seniors who are at risk for COVID-19 or have limited income.

To address the coronavirus food safety question of whether cooking kills the virus on food, an infectious disease medical expert answers common concerns.

The best baking tip is measuring ingredients by weight, as professional bakers do, to ensure the most accurate and consistent results.

As part of his hit YouTube series, John Krasinski hosted a virtual potluck with Stanley Tucci, Martha Stewart, Guy Fieri and David Chang. Yes, really.

Home cooks can get sushi-grade fish and dry-aged steaks for cheap, but at what cost?

These simple sweets hit the spot every time.

Lincoln Carson has decided to close his lauded Arts District restaurant permanently because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The COVID-19 shutdown is affecting the flow of essential Oaxacan ingredients to L.A.

San Pedro's historic waterfront market is offering discounted shrimp trays to draw in customers

Now that sourdough baking has become a shutdown trend, here are some suggestions for what to do with extra starter.

Brown butter warms up a generous amount of ground cinnamon for the crunchy topping in this spin on a classic crumb cake.

Los Angeles Times sportswriters and editors pick their favorite sports books.

A after visiting every U.S. county in the lower 48, William Least Heat-Moon is the master of the topographical journey. Now 80, he takes another trip through his new novel — into the imperfect history of American democracy.

César Aira's latest novel, "Artforum," is about the art magazine and also the universe

In quarantine, mystery poet Rigoberto González

Julia Alvarez's "Afterlife" is her first novel for adults in 15 years. She talks about loss, fragmentation and "American Dirt."

Marie Mutsuki Mockett's 'American Harvest' looks at the divide between the heartland and those who seldom think about where our food comes from.

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.

A tribute to Patricia Bosworth, who died of complications from COVID-19. The actress and biographer of Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando 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.

Cynthia Ozick, essayist and acclaimed novelist, shelters from coronavirus and discusses anti-Semitism, the Spanish flu and longevity.

Winners of the L.A. Times Book Prizes will be announced in a special, virtual Twitter ceremony this year because of the global health crisis.

Recipe: Writer turns to Fanny Singer's "Always Home" for comfort chicken during family's Seder.

A book club for people who don't like book clubs, founded in 2012 in San Francisco and now boasting six chapters in L.A. County, has moved online.

Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" and Mark Doty's "What Is the Grass," about Walt Whitman, are hybrid memoir-biographies.

Malla Nunn's "When The Ground is Hard," winner of the 2019 Times Book Prize for young-adult literature, revisits South Africa's toughest years.

The journalist has plenty of space in Alabama, but it still gets lonesome. Luckily there's Larry McMurtry, Humphrey Bogart and Jerry Lee Lewis.

What crime novelist Laura Lippman is reading and watching in quarantine

'Always Home' author Fanny Singer worries more about running out of garlic than toilet paper.

While guests of Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center are stuck through June, canceled residencies across the U.S. endanger an artistic ecosystem.

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

He's interviewed Neko Case, Jeff Tweedy and Maria Bamford about depression. With his new memoir, "The Hilarious World of Depression," John Moe looks inward.

People are making valid points about Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis, but the president's supporters aren't listening.

Laguna Woods residents express dismay at their neighbors' opposition to using a nearby hotel as housing for homeless coronavirus patients.

The Supreme Court is allowing the Republican Party to suppress the vote. This bodes very poorly for democracy in America.

This is what happens when we elect a failed-businessman-turned-reality TV star as president.

It's insane to think life can return to normal soon when we haven't even figured out how to get enough milk and toilet paper into stores.

Healthcare providers undergo a complicated process to make sure their N95 masks are doing their job. Members of the public may have a false sense of security.

The Los Angeles County district attorney says work was already underway on reducing L.A.'s jail population before a zero-bail order was issued.

Calls to open all beaches because Californians have a right to them are silly and dangerous. Gov. Newsom is making the right call.

Readers weigh in on a cellist's front-porch concerts and TV ads in coronavirus time, pop-up bookstores vs. bookmobiles; renegade designs for anew LACMA and more.

Democrats who expect all voters sick of President Trump to vote for Joe Biden are insulting people who care more about the issues than the party.