Metro Special Reports, Projects & Investigations

A scholar's journey leads through war, addiction and injury to arrest.
Stories by Jason Felch.

The Times explores the growth and cost of wildfires.
Stories by Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart.

A Times investigation finds questionable dealings plague the Los Angeles chapter of the Service Employees International Union.
Stories by Times Staff Writer Paul Pringle.

The war between drug cartels and Mexican troops that has left at least 4,100 people dead.
Stories by The Times foreign, national and metro staffs.

A law intended to crack down on sex offenders has proved a bonanza for some private psychologists and psychiatrists. Meanwhile, some offenders have slipped through the cracks.
Stories by Charles Piller and Lee Romney.

A look at how your neighbors, in the next lane, juggle their lives and drives. And how we got here.
Stories by Christopher Goffard, Dan Weikel and Jeffrey L. Rabin.

The war between drug cartels and Mexican troops that has left at least 4,100 people dead.
Stories by Times Staff Writers John M. Glionna and Charles Ornstein.

DNA matches in criminal cases aren't as always a lock.
Stories by Maura Dolan and Jason Felch.

Medical records improperly accessed at hospitals.
Stories by Charles Ornstein.

A series on the lives of illegal immigrants in Southern California.
Stories by the staff of the Times.

How California elected officials and their donors get around campaign contribution limits.
Stories by the staff of the Times Sacramento bureau

Continuing coverage of gang violence in Los Angeles
Stories by Hector Becerra and Sam Quinones

Scott Gold chronicles Southern California, one block at a time.

Full coverage of the 2007 brush fires, including ongoing recovery efforts.

At least 33 infants were infected in the 1980s by HIV-tainted transfusions at Cedars-Sinai.
Stories by Charles Ornstein

How the development boom in downtown, the Westside, Valley and other parts of L.A. is dramatically changing the city.
Stories by Sharon Bernstein, Cara Mia DiMassa, and others Times staff writers

Inside the California's mental health system.
Stories by Scott Gold, Lee Romney and other Times staff writers.

An examination of vulnerable 911 emergency system
Stories by Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez

At look at the region's public housing operations, from housing projects
in South L.A. to new subdivisions on the Antelope Valley
Stories by Jessica Garrison and Ted Rohrlich

TImes reporter Jill Leovy spent 2007 writing about homicides in Los Angeles County.
Check out her blog, the interactive homicide map, and her stories.