Salaries

Why is California’s wildfire strategy wrong for SoCal? After massive blazes, the state changed its approach, but it only works for the north. Listen to find out what officials are doing wrong — and the surprising strategy they’re turning to next.

In 1990, UCLA student Ronald Baker was murdered in a railway tunnel. While his occult interests fueled “Satanic Panic” rumors, police found his killers knew him well — one had even carried his casket.

A gunman targeted an elementary school in Rancho Tehama after a deadly rampage. The media barely covered it. Five years later, an L.A. Times reporter wants to know why.