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When television goes to college, it's usually to focus on the students, with their youth, dewy skin and lust for life undimmed by time, experience or perspective. These shows offer a hit of fantasy nostalgia for older viewers and a flattering mirror for younger ones. They're sexy by nature.

Eli Lilly & Co. played the altruism card like a champ on Mar. 1, when it announced steep price cuts on its insulin products of as much as 70%.

LOS ANGELES — For 24 years, Peniana Arguelles has worked as a special education assistant in Los Angeles public schools. At Menlo Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles she feeds children who can’t hold a fork, changes diapers, helps students choose colors for their paintings, doles out hugs when…

An Amazon worker at a Bakersfield, California, warehouse alleges the company fired him last month for seeking time off to grieve his parents' deaths, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Kern County Superior Court.

LOS ANGELES — A day after unions representing both teachers and support staff announced a three-day strike starting Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District was scrambling to prepare for the looming shutdown of 1,000 campuses — while at the same time, trying to prevent the massive walkout.

LOS ANGELES — The degraded state of the Sanborn Hotel Apartments is apparent from the sidewalk. Holes have been smashed in the wire-reinforced windows of its front doors. And one of the latches doesn't work, leaving the building open to intruders, who roam the halls at night turning doorknobs, trying…

University of California investment officials said Thursday that their controversial decision to invest $4 billion in private equity giant Blackstone was a "capitalistic decision" to maximize returns for UC retirees and rebuffed criticism that it was worsening the student housing crisis.

LOS ANGELES — Though California may be ending its winter with quenched reservoirs and near record snowpack, meteorologists are warning that the state will face increased flooding risk in the coming months as Sierra Nevada snowmelt fills rivers and streams.

The knives are out and then some in "Full River Red," a murkily entertaining exercise in twist-twist-stab-stab from the Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Set over a long, dark and increasingly bloody night at a Song Dynasty military fortress, this 12th-century comic mystery opens with a touch of "Macbeth" — a…

LOS ANGELES — When leaves ripen red, birds across the country begin heading south. When branches turn bare, bears turn to hibernation for the winter.

LOS ANGELES — Seeking stability in a season featuring little of it, the Clippers have turned to a player who wasn’t on the roster until a month ago.