Jill Stewart

Not only does it suck to die, but in California there's a special shakedown involved. If you're among the among the millions of Californians in the middle class, there's no way to transfer your house title to your kids when you're old without shelling out $2,000 to $10,000 to hire......

In her busy bird-supplies shop in Sherman Oaks, Bonnie McFarlin describes her motionless butterfly habitat with dread. "In a good year we would have, I don't know, 25 or 50 monarchs in there at a time, and this year we had none." McFarlin, who co-owns Wild Wings Backyard, worries about......

By all rights, 96th Street Elementary School in Watts shouldn't be busy on a summer morning. School doesn't start until Aug. 18, and the front door is hemmed in by construction fencing to boot. But parents keep popping by the plain brick complex under the roaring flight path of LAX......

Some of the first people to notice the anti-vaccination phenomenon in California were Santa Monica physicians like pediatrician Alice Kuo, whose UCLA clinic on 16th Street sits midway between the upscale industrial art galleries at Bergamot Station and pricey Montana Avenue, a shopping district favored by one of the most......