INDUSTRIES
Los Angeles-based, Jenni Kayne-founded, natural skincare brand Oak Essentials has secured first-round dual funding from Silas Capital and Unilever Ventures to fuel the brand’s expansion, allowing for enhanced product development, increased marketing efforts and broader distribution.
Sept. 25, 2024
Company News
This week, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Susanne Rust was honored with the inaugural Aviram Foundation Award for Climate Journalism.
World & Nation
Mexico’s president-elect says Spain’s king is not invited to her inauguration because the crown never answered an apology demand over its colonial legacy.
California
UC police are asking for pepper balls, sponge rounds, launchers, drones and other weapons in their annual requests. UC says they are mostly for training.
Sept. 19, 2024
Sports
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani doesn’t have his 50-50 home run ball. Neither do these Marlins fans who got their hands on it. It may be worth $500,000 or more.
Sept. 21, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
The Little Free Library now has an art counterpart: A grassroots effort to establish micro art galleries in Long Beach is spreading to other neighborhoods.
Sept. 17, 2024
Multiple people have been arrested in neighborhoods evacuated due to wildfires. Officials said one pair had items that would aid them in carrying out thefts — as well as, strangely, wild opossums.
Sept. 12, 2024
Mayor Karen Bass read that Norm Langer was thinking of closing his deli, so she stopped by for lunch and vowed to address neighborhood problems
Aug. 29, 2024
Lifestyle
Seeking community and beauty, adult women are returning to the once highly competitive and exclusive art of ballet.
Disney is getting into the real estate game with Cotino, a massive development in Rancho Mirage complete with more than 1,900 homes. But not all the locals are happy to see the entertainment giant come to town.
Aug. 28, 2024