Water flows through the Owens Valley in the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 2023. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) It’s a chapter of California history filled with subterfuge and conflict: More than a ...

In a desert landscape dominated by sagebrush, a piece of Los Angeles' immense water empire stands behind a chain-link fence: a hydrant-like piece of metal atop a well. The electric pump hums as it ...

Mulholland’s shining reputation shifted dramatically fifteen years later, when the St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon, part of the same water system, collapsed in 1928, becoming the deadliest ...

We begin with a new internal report from the LAPD that says cops see the department’s disciplinary system as biased based on race, gender, and rank. Then, water officials in Los Angeles and the Owens ...

1. I raised some coyotes once / Nettie Roeper Fausel -- 2. The valley is nothin' like it was in the old days / W. C. "Stub" Lydston -- 3. That's how I spent most of my time, among the white people / ...

As we drove north along Highway 395 — passing the salty remains of Owens Lake, the Museum of Western Film History, the geothermal plant outside Mammoth Lakes that supplies 24/7 clean energy to San ...

It’s a chapter of California history filled with subterfuge and conflict: More than a century ago, agents secretly working for Los Angeles posed as farmers and ranchers as they bought land and water ...

A century ago, people in the Owens Valley carried out a defiant act of protest, taking over part of the L.A. Aqueduct and releasing water. An event this weekend focuses on the history of that ...