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Ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and in an effort to improve youth fitness and access to sports, the Clippers Foundation will announce Monday a $10-million donation to the L.A. Parks Foundation to renovate all indoor and outdoor basketball courts in city parks.

First, it was Confederate monuments. Now, statues offensive to Native Americans are poised to topple across the U.S.

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Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section.

The pop star raised his hands, striking a messianic pose from the stage as the adoring crowd strained to touch the edges of his flowing robe.

Like many people in Los Angeles, I like detached houses. My family lives in a single-family home that was built in 1923 by a woman from Hollywood. Houses like mine are an important part of L.A.’s built environment, history and housing stock. In a region with a housing shortage and homelessness...

In addition to peddling fake news and hacking into email systems, Russia apparently tried but failed to interfere with the machinery of 2016 U.S. elections. No votes were changed, as far as we know, but Russian hackers attempted to invade election systems in 21 states and succeeded in penetrating...

Although recent storms have dumped heavy snow across the Sierra Nevada, Monday’s snowpack measurement will almost certainly show that it is still well below average. Last week, the Sierra-wide reading put the total snowpack at 15.8 inches of water content, or 43% below normal.

It was an Easter tradition for Jesse Hernandez’s family: a day in Griffith Park picnicking and playing soccer and volleyball. Up next was the egg hunt — but the boys had run off.

I will happily watch the actor Steve Zahn ("That Thing You Do," "Treme") in just about anything. I have had cause to regret this willingness in the past — never because of the actor, who sits easily on the screen — but not in the case of "The Crossing," which debuts April 2 on ABC. It is watchable,...

It started with aches, pains and a malaise that Adeola Ajetunmobi tried hard to ignore. With her father out of work and her mother hawking pens and other small items in Lagos, their family barely had enough money to survive. Paying for medical expenses simply wasn’t in the budget.

Mohammed bin Salman, the 32-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is sure to be treated like a movie star when his tour of the United States comes to Los Angeles this week.

Bryan Cranston has dog videos on his phone, at the ready. His current favorite is a clip of a golden retriever that nestles her tiny puppy against her chest, covering its head with her paw for protection. “Look at that dog,” Cranston sighs. “Isn’t that so cute?”

The search for offshore oil begins with a boom.

Before the oil rigs arrive and the boring begins, operators need to fire intense seismic blasts repeatedly into the ocean to find oil deposits.

For decades, environmental rules that protected whales and other marine life from this cacophony have limited...

When Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial opens with jury selection Monday, two major factors will be at play that were absent at his first trial, which ended in a mistrial when jurors failed to reach a verdict on whether he had drugged and molested a woman 14 years ago.

He went ahead and did it. Of course he did. Bashing California is way too much fun and easy for President Trump.

No excuses emerged from the Lakers’ locker room Sunday night after they fell to the bottom-dwelling Sacramento Kings.

Josh Hart grew wistful remembering it.

In 2016, he was part of a Villanova team that won the men’s college basketball national championship.

“It’s incredible,” Hart said. “Might be the most fun you ever have playing basketball. Especially when you win it. Just going through, when we won, we played,...

They might have been fighting words two or three years ago, when Yasiel Puig had turned from an eccentric personality to a nuisance within the Dodgers clubhouse. Stop hitting, and all of a sudden blowing off coaches and showing up late is not silently tolerated.

The Ducks, it seems, are never quite out of it.

Even when they’re not playing their best, they find a way to flip momentum. At least that’s been the case recently, and it happened again Sunday before 17,054 at Honda Center.

Down two goals against the Colorado Avalanche, one of the squads the Ducks...

It was an Easter tradition for Jesse Hernandez’s family: a day in Griffith Park picnicking and playing soccer and volleyball. Up next was the egg hunt — but the boys had run off.

China’s defunct space laboratory has returned to Earth, with pieces apparently splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America.

The Spurs took advantage of a Houston Rockets team that admitted to a lapse of focus after recently clinching the best record in the Western Conference, and pulled out a crucial win in its own playoff push.

Ondrej Kase scored 1:34 into overtime and the Anaheim Ducks rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Sunday night.