Citing concerns over spreading the coronavirus, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced public schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year.

A former admissions official at USC will plead guilty to helping graduate students from China gain acceptance to the school by submitting doctored transcripts and fraudulent recommendation letters.

Don't let the coronavirus outbreak obscure the lessons of theater, the connection to great thinkers, the inspiration that comes from the art of creation.

The Los Angeles school district racks up $200 million in emergency coronavirus costs, from meal programs to computers, and the budget outlook is uncertain at best.

With school closed for the coronavirus, LAUSD, the nation's second-largest district, has given out about 10 million meals since March 18.

The exclusive Brentwood School has returned money it received under the Paycheck Protection Program after President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin leveled criticism at private schools that took funds from the federal coronavirus aid program.

The attorney general suggests that he's in sync with Trump's 'liberation' tweets.

The way the gay community responded to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s has lessons for us all in the coronavirus pandemic.

Hotels need to take in homeless people if they don't want the coronavirus to spread.

Since when is it a good idea for the president of the United States to encourage political leaders to cave in to demands by armed protesters?

For almost a year, my chamber group worked on a piece meant to be performed in complete darkness. When the coronavirus put our plans on hold, our mentor told us we would keep growing even though the world would never be the same.

Some antibody tests for COVID-19 have unacceptably high rates of false positives.

Big Ones deliver big lessons: Our best protection in disastrous times is community.

The coronavirus pandemic might be a tipping point for small medical practices, which have had trouble staying afloat.

Trump's executive order to keep meat processing plants open, despite coronavirus risks to workers, is utterly consistent with the federal law's long-standing disregard for food worker safety.

Several medical trade groups are asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom for extraordinary immunity for their triage decisions.

What happens when sacred values — human life and liberty — are pitted against each other?

Anger at Xi Jinping's government over the coronavirus crisis is warranted, but treating a nuclear and economic superpower as an existential enemy to satisfy domestic political needs isn't the smart way to go.

The fight for access to open space and natural landscapes has a long history, and it's taken a new turn in the coronavirus outbreak.

If colleges have to pay out millions in tuition refunds because of coronavirus, it could mean higher tuition and reduced financial aid in coming years.

Of all the unseemly and scandalous actions by the Department of Justice in the Trump era, the dismissal of charges against Michael Flynn is the worst.

The history of the Trump Justice Department doesn't inspire confidence.

Jordan could win the adoration of white America, but only as long as he didn't talk about what it meant to be black in America.

In his off time, medical ICU nurse Oh Young-jun sketches scenes from his job within a coronavirus isolation ward in South Korea.

Mister Cartoon, tagger turned tattooist to the stars, and Estevan Oriol, bouncer turned hip-hop documentarian, have a new Netflix film, 'LA Originals.'

Diane Rodriguez, ex-associate artistic director of Center Theatre Group, is remembered for her work with Luis Valdez and Culture Clash, among others.

The last thing we need is another Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — unless Teodor Currentzis is conducting. His new recording brings much-needed catharsis.

Join the watch party for Ballet Hispánico's 'Con Brazos Abiertos' and catch a Q&A with choreographer Michelle Manzanales.

"Riverdale" captures the aesthetic of John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." Whether the musical's queer politics are intact is another matter.

Ticket sales were supposed to help theater and opera companies pay the costs of turning freelancers into staff members under AB 5. What now?

Laid-off Broad museum staffers, most of them part-time, will remain on payroll through Friday; the curatorial team will remain in place.

Hospitals built in two weeks. Freeways with few cars. Which innovations and changes could, or should, stick with us in a post-coronavirus world?

Chicano Park in San Diego's Barrio Logan, known for its murals, began with student-led occupation. Right-wing extremists object but the site is historic.

Chicano Park in San Diego's Barrio Logan, known for its murals, began with student-led occupation

The best performances in "Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration" showed how the composer doesn't traffic in formulas.

Rafael Cardenas had a simple project for 2020: Take a daily photograph of Los Angeles. What he captured is a city under coronavirus lockdown.

It's alive! Watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller switch off in the lead roles in a stage adaptation of "Frankenstein."

Richard Nelson's new Apple Family play opens on YouTube to confront the pandemic. What can storytelling offer us right now?

The experimental theater company revisits Shakespeare using a 1964 filmed performance of Richard Burton. Here's how to stream it for free.

The tale of a black queer writer wins one of theater's top prizes. David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's musical, "Soft Power," is a finalist.

Family and friends came together to commemorate the 31 people who died in the Ladbroke Grove train crash 20 years ago today

London Fire Brigade's response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee publish report on Whirlpool tumble dryers

Teachers and parents are being warned not to use real candles following an accident during a school’s carol service which resulted in a child suffering serious burns

Andy Roe, who was appointed as the new London Fire Commissioner, responds to report

Today the Brigade’s first ever woman Commissioner Dany Cotton leaves London Fire Brigade after 32 years. Her long career has seen her break new ground for women in the fire service and open up the discussion around mental health issues in the emergency services.

Fire crews attended around 160 weather related incidents in a 12 hour period.

Three London firefighters, and three from South Wales, will be strapping on skis for an arduous 1900km trek across the Antarctic.

The Bill will amend the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO) and will provide greater clarity on the additional areas which fall to the responsible person or duty-holder for multi-occupied residential buildings

London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade have announced a new partnership to boost the Covid-19 emergency response which will see firefighters helping with a number of roles across the ambulance service