From San Diego to the Bay Area and wine country, our food critic guides you to the best dining spots in the state.

Writers from six of the year’s most entertaining and acclaimed TV series open up about runaway production, the binge model and tuning out (or into) social media.

In a war for control of L.A.’s Armenian underworld, federal authorities say rival crews of gangsters engaged in a series of dramatic shootings and kidnappings across the San Fernando Valley.

In this 1965 interview — his first with the Los Angeles Times — Brian Wilson already showed a remarkably prescient grasp of the lifelong hold his music would have on fans.

This 17-year-old transgender athlete has faced challenges on the track and in the national spotlight. We follow her through her tumultuous final semester of high school.