From Cal/OSHA complaints to uniting with unions, workers can take some action if they feel their workplaces aren't keeping them safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

Scientists are using the coronavirus to study the contagion of misinformation

Millions of homeowners have signed up for mortgage forbearance programs. But there is confusion and concern over how they will pay back what they owe.

Mortgage companies are letting home owners with coronavirus-related financial hardships delay payments, but the process is confusing

Problems from the surge of jobless claims reflect years of cutbacks and greater restrictions on eligibility.

A catch in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program could disqualify many workers.

California on Monday sued two gasoline trading firms, alleging they took advantage of a 2015 refinery explosion in Torrance to improperly drive up the price at the pump.

The airline received criticism to ask fliers can pay to social distance on their next flight

A small oil town in Southern California is pummeled by the economy during the coronavirus outbreak and economic downturn

Many can now meet payroll for a few weeks – but then what?

Justices hear a dispute over Trump administration rules to limit contraception requirements. Hospitalized Ruth Bader Ginsburg calls in.

Mitch McConnell has promised that the next coronavirus bill would protect business owners from lawsuits related to COVID-19.

Along with Henry Segerstrom and Donald Bren, he helped make the OC more cosmopolitan.

During coronavirus quarantine, good snacks are essential and this trail mix from a small, female-owned food company is the best out there.

Chef Eric Bost's Melrose Avenue restaurant opened just 13 months ago.

The COVID-19 shutdown is affecting the flow of essential Oaxacan ingredients to L.A.

Restaurants offering Mother's Day specials (including brunch and tea) in Los Angeles and Orange County.

A list of currently available produce from local farmers.

Newton Nguyen (aka @milktpapi) talks Spam musubi, overnight virality and Los Angeles cuisine.

Eric Nusbaum's "Stealing Home" follows a family displaced from Chavez Ravine, where Dodger Stadium was built.

In our latest quarantine diary, Charles Finch contemplates Kierkegaard, watches "Love Is Blind," gets the Led out and develops a candle habit.

Marie Mutsuki Mockett's 'American Harvest' looks at the divide between the heartland and those who seldom think about where our food comes from.

In a virtual meet-up, "Almost Home" author Fanny Singer and mother and famed chef Alice Waters join book club readers April 21 for a kitchen conversation.

Sunday is when Tiger Woods made golf history, but Saturday is when he won the 2019 Masters and reestablished himself as golf's king.

The best series of books in four categories — including highbrow ('Wolf Hall'), L.A. favorites (Easy Rollins) and epic histories (Taylor Branch).

Fanny Singer's stories and recipes, 'Always Home,' show life growing up in the orbit of her mother, farm-to-table chef Alice Waters.

The author of "The Topeka School," winner of the 2019 Times Book Prize for fiction, speaks on poetry, debate, citizenship and crisis homeschooling.

Blake Gopnik's definitive 'Warhol' gathers up all the receipts on the blank icon who stormed the barricades of art, only to serve it up to commerce.

'Always Home' author Fanny Singer worries more about running out of garlic than toilet paper.

Nick Capizzi and Jenny Yang founded A Good Used Book in 2018 as an itinerant book-browsing mecca. Now they're surviving on hope and Instagram.

The author of "Sweetbitter" juggles child care and promoting her new L.A. area memoir, "Stray," reads poetry and takes solace in "The Office."

In 'Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery,' the critic travels to Nordic cities to investigate the society that shaped a global phenomenon.

People are making valid points about Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis, but the president's supporters aren't listening.

Warning memos were written. Research was funded. But what good is any of this if American leaders fail to act?

A tent city for homeless veterans? It should not have taken a deadly pandemic for local leaders to come up with that solution.

Free college was common in the U.S. until the 1960s and produced alumni that included Nobel Prize winners and accomplished statesmen.

The president might not like to work, but the people who think and act for him are very effective at their jobs.

Protesters violating every rule on fighting COVID-19, with the support of the president, show how badly we need competent leadership.

We're still divided into red state and blue states. Of course we aren't coming together with a disaster like the COVID-19 pandemic raging on.

Rarely does any group of people draw so many howls of protest from readers as the anti-lockdown demonstrators.

If there are still crowded flights and TSA agents are not required to wear masks, how will we ever be able to return to normal?

A professor's suggestion for college student to take time off and turn out the vote is nice, but why not help them with the loan debt first?

It's simply wrong when a much younger person dies. Let younger patients take the ventilator if there's a scarcity -- and let doctors make the decision.

The Brown Act doesn't give officials any excuse they want to shut out the public from their meetings.

We're comparing the number of Americans to have died from COVID-19 to war casualties. Why not consider AIDS?

A second-generation surivivor whose grandparents died in the Holocaust blasts a newspaper publisher for comparing coronavirus restrictions to Nazi Germany.

Letter writers who criticize the president are brushing off accusations from Trump's defenders that they suffer from some kind of insanity.

As a divorce lawyer in 'Marriage Story,' Laura Dern calls out societal bias against mothers. She helped craft the speech with writer-director Noah Baumbach.

The five Oscar-nominated live-action shorts of 2020: 'Brotherhood,' 'Saria,' 'Nefta Football Club,' 'My Neighbors' Window,' 'A Sister.'

"The Irishman," "1917," "The Lion King," "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," "Avengers: Endgame" — a rundown of the visual-effects Oscar finalists.