As Paris Olympics near, Los Angeles officials worry about preparations for 2028

The last time Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, he pointed out ... Times. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Business Journal, Reuters in Mexico City and Southern California News Group ... Read More

American man jailed after 2020 Tokyo Olympics doping charge

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic and took place in 2021 An American man has been jailed for three months after pleading guilty to involvement in providing ... Read More

What happened at the last Olympics? A look back at Tokyo 2020

2020, the Tokyo Olympics were, like other major sporting events, blighted by the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, forcing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move things back by a year. Read More

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete despite failed drug tests

Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but were cleared to compete after it was found to be caused by contamination. Read More

Grace Toohey

Grace Toohey is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering breaking news for the Fast Break Desk ... bills that would allow counties to phase out short-term rentals. What could that mean ... Read More

Broderick Turner

Broderick Turner is a Los Angeles Times reporter who covers the Los Angeles ... as he deals with a knee injury that has kept him out eight games. The Clippers are hoping Kawhi Leonard (knee ... Read More

David Zahniser

David Zahniser covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the newsroom in 2007 and previously wrote on local government for the Claremont Courier, Pasadena Star-News, the ... Read More

Peter Schey, longtime Los Angeles champion of immigrant rights, dead at 77

As COVID-19 spread through detention facilities in 2020 ... In your inbox three times per week. Andrea Castillo covers immigration. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she covered immigrant ... Read More

Dakota Smith

Dakota Smith covers City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. She is part of the team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for reporting on a leaked audio recording that upended City Hall ... Read More

Mark Swed

Mark Swed has been the classical music critic of the Los Angeles Times since 1996. Before that, he was a music critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Wall Street Journal and has ... Read More

Todd Martens

Todd Martens joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007 and covers a mix of interactive entertainment (video games) and pop music. Previously, Martens reported on the music business for Billboard Magazine. Read More