It left the beach enclave of Huntington Beach to the left, and Disneyland to the right, as it worked its way north and west, drawing ever closer to the east-west range of hills, the Santa Monica Mountains, which define the northern end of Los Angeles proper and shelter the city’s most storied redoubts: Beverly Hills, the Hollywood Hills ...

Topline: The New York Times reported Monday that the Sikorsky S-76B helicopter that crashed and killed Kobe Bryant and eight others aboard on Sunday in Calabasas, California, was given special approval to fly in foggy weather,

Then a fireball erupted on a hillside off Las Virgenes Road. I had no way of knowing the helicopter that had plunged into the Santa Monica Mountains hillside was carrying basketball legend Kobe Bryant, as well as his young daughter Gianna, and this crash would send fans around the nation into mourning. It was 9:52 a.m., and I ventured out onto ...

it’s the latest sign of consolidation among e-scooter companies Circ isn’t Bird’s first acquisition. The Santa Monica-based company bought West Coast rival Scoot for a reported $25 million in early 2019. The acquisition allowed Bird to get back into the lucrative San Francisco market, after initially getting shut out of the city in 2018.

The helicopter appears to have struck the ground extremely hard, scattering wreckage over a wide area, and it may be difficult to determine the cause of the tragic accident, air safety experts say.

Dockless e-scooters swept cities worldwide in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, expect the battery-powered micromobility revolution to take a new direction.

Then a fireball erupted on a hillside off Las Virgenes Road. I had no way of knowing the helicopter that had plunged into the Santa Monica Mountains hillside was carrying basketball legend Kobe Bryant, as well as his young daughter Gianna, and this crash would send fans around the nation into mourning. The Times is offering coverage of Kobe ...

They are the remaining parts of the rapidly gentrifying Black and Latino areas of Baldwin Hills and Boyle Heights; the White neighborhoods of Hancock Park and Santa Monica; the burgeoning neighborhoods of K-Town and Chinatown. We all exist in our separate silos, except for one unifying love of our Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe was the thread that ...

Tony Imbrenda. "The wreckage is still pretty hot up there," Imbrenda. "We still have some fire activity on the hill." The crash took place in Calabasas, a city of about 25,000 people in the Santa Monica Mountains about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Art Marrujo, a dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department ...

Grabbing us by the hair and pleading: “Remember this man! Take this moment to appreciate him! He won’t be here much longer.” Bryant’s helicopter crashed into a hillside in the Santa Monica Mountains on Sunday morning, killing all nine people aboard, including his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. The sudden manner in which Bryant died makes ...