Is Los Angeles burning? Where are the protests? Is LA safe? Tourists visiting this week were understandably full of questions.

The demonstrations over immigration raids occupy only a tiny parcel of real estate in this huge metropolis — despite the ...

Smog continued to blanket the city in the 1950s. This is the view from the Los Angeles City Hall in 1954, after eight days of heavy smog. Lee Begovich, who moved to the city in 1953, told the ...