Gracie Zheng

Please read about L.A. officials' feverish approval of big projects near Franklin and Yucca above and near the active Hollywood Fault. Updated at bottom with a "before and after map" to show how skyscraper location got moved outside the Fault Rupture Study Area. Description of map corrected at 7 p.m......

Updated at the bottom with the City Council's vote. Also: The developer denies its fault study is wrong. First posted at 12:43 p.m. Tuesday. Despite a sharp warning to the L.A. City Council from Gov. Jerry Brown's top geologist on Saturday not to move forward on development permits, the council......

Ballona Wetlands, the last major tidal marsh in Los Angeles Southern California, has been the center of a furious recent debate pitting environmental groups against the Annenberg Foundation and state agencies, who want to construct a huge building there. Now, a mysterious underground drain system, installed by developer Playa Capital......

The horrific spill of 8,500 gallons of blazing gas from an overturned truck at the 2 and 5 freeways that poured through storm drains -- and toward the L.A. River -- spared thousands of creatures in the region's important bird flyway. That's right -- Los Angeles River is an important......

See Also: "Annenberg Foundation Can't Grasp Disgust Over Its Wetlands 'Interpretive Center' and Dog Pound" Environmentalists raised angry questions this week about whether lobbyists and PR people for the Annenberg Foundation should be sitting on Westchester/Playa Neighborhood Council -- a new twist in a war over whether heiress Wallis Annenberg......

The two teens killed in the San Francisco plane crash, Ye Mingyuan and Wang Linjia, 16, were best friends at the top of their class at highly rated Jiangshan High School in China's southeastern Zhejiang province, where Wang was class president. In China, a huge story is unfolding. A cascade......

Excited about the day off tomorrow? So are 2.92 million Southland residents who will travel someplace else, says the Automobile Club of Southern California. According to a survey of AAA's travel agents, the top five destinations for Los Angeles residents and other Southern Californians are:......

Read the full story "Save Ballona or Pave Ballona?" here. Heiress Wallis Annenberg's dream of erecting a 46,000-square-foot visitor center/animal adoption facility at the Ballona Wetlands is under fire from several environmental groups and activists -- a backlash that has fueled a growing debate about paving over a chunk of......

A 7.6-foot bronze statue of Bruce Lee, the first in the U.S., was unveiled in L.A.'s Chinatown over Father's Day weekend as part of Chinatown Summer Nights festival, creating a buzz among locals, tourists and fans who came to the historic Central Plaza to pay tribute to the martial arts......