Ellie Laks

As leaders relax mask mandates and large portions of the country move on from the COVID pandemic, grief remains deep and widespread for those who have lost family in LA.

LA’s youth climate leaders keep up with their schoolwork as they lobby for climate legislation, rally a generation, and try to secure a liveable future.

Psychedelic drugs can induce profound spiritual and mystical connections. We explore how these experiences positively impact mental health and the therapeutic value of ketamine.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the Ukraine-Russia conflict as a proxy war between Russia and NATO. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pushed back on that characterization.

Author and journalist Johann Hari on the forces that are stealing our attention and focus, and what we can do individually and collectively to regain our minds.

To reduce the amount of plastic making its way into the ocean, LA County is requiring that food service items be made of organic or recyclable materials.

Gov. Newsom’s CARE Court would give judges more power to push people struggling with addiction and severe mental illness into court-ordered care.

Southern Californians are taking their own approaches to the drought. One man waters his yard daily. Another has native plants and hardly ever waters.

Over the weekend, the union for workers at Ralphs, Vons, and Albertsons voted to authorize a strike.