Новости за 23.12.2015

The National Park Service is celebrating its centennial next year, and to mark the occasion John Hall’s Alaska is offering a tour by bus, plane and ship to six of the state’s eight national parks.

Have a craving for tacos? Need a recommendation for ramen? Want to know where to find the best roast chicken in the city? Need more dining questions answered? Jonathan Gold is your man. Come back here today at noon for a live chat with him. You can ask your question via Twitter using #AskJGold,...

Four-time defending overall World Cup slalom ski champion Marcel Hirscher was extremely lucky to avoid being hit by a camera drone that crashed just behind him as he was racing on an Alpine course in Italy on Tuesday night.

Oahu visitors can return to the era of Hawaiian royalty during rare evening tours of Honolulu's Iolani Palace next Monday and Tuesday.Once home to the island's kings and queens, the palace in downtown Honolulu generally offers only daytime tours. But to celebrate the Dec. 31 anniversary of the...

+ After coming to terms with the fact that they might not score many goals, the Ducks decided they’d focus on defense. That’s not going so well, either.

Local and federal authorities are stepping up security measures at this year’s Rose Parade and Rose Bowl after a terrorist attack in San Bernardino rattled the region.

On Tuesday, the Lakers got their first win against a Western Conference opponent this season, defeating the Denver Nuggets, 111-107.

Consumer spending, a key driver of the U.S. economy, showed solid growth last month to kick off the holiday shopping season as incomes also kept rising, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

To create the brutal bear attack scene in "The Revenant" took a lot of research and painstaking choreography, said director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Ultimately, it all came together through teamwork and, essentially, "storyboarding with human beings."

Johnny Depp's box office earning power isn't quite what it used to be — but that isn't reflected in his paycheck. Forbes has named the "Mortdecai" star 2015's most overpaid actor.

Five years after they angrily broke off diplomatic ties, Israel and Turkey are negotiating a return to normalized relations as the region around them explodes in violence.

Eric Pitkanen had been in Las Vegas for less than nine hours, and he already missed his 15-month-old son back home in Oregon.

Imagine you're afraid of spiders. If you seek psychiatric treatment, your therapist will try to convince you that your fear is irrational. She'll tell you over and over again that daddy long legs are harmless and black widows are rare. Ignore the creatures crawling around your attic, she'll say;...

A few days ago, as I bought tickets to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” I paused briefly to wonder what I was doing. Why was I paying dearly — $30 for each seat — to see “Star Wars” in 3-D? I wasn't a particularly enthusiastic fan of the originals. I wasn't desperate to watch a J.J. Abrams-directed...

California healthcare providers will soon be using a faster and more secure database aimed at combating drug abuse.

Since Congress created the first inspectors general for federal agencies in 1978, these in-house watchdogs have proved their worth again and again. Inspectors general have investigated the CIA's inhumane “enhanced interrogation methods,” revealed abuses in the FBI's acquisition of telephone and...

The story of the incarceration of some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast of the U.S. — nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens — is familiar, if not as broadly known as it should be. Most were imprisoned after the onset of World War II in 10 remote camps, the...

Looking back

The Kanye West X Adidas Originals collection's debut during New York Fashion Week in February would have been a high point for its star-studded front row alone, which included notable fashion designer Alexander Wang; pop stars Rihanna, Diddy, Jay Z and Beyoncé; and Vogue's powerful...

There's the letter of the law and there's the spirit of the law. The donations made by Taser International employees to Councilman Mitch Englander while the company was seeking to sell body cameras for use by L.A. police officers may not have been technically illegal. But they certainly appear...

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today. Subscribe to the newsletter TOP STORIES Drought, El Niño and the Makings of a Mudflow Water, hillsides and a lack of vegetation don't mix well. In years past, mudflows arising from the...

While the Lakers were in Denver, defeating the Nuggets 111-107, Tarik Black and Ryan Kelly were on assignment in the NBA Development League in Santa Cruz, helping the D-Fenders beat the Warriors 104-82.

Good morning. It is Wednesday, Dec. 23. A wild sea otter decided the Monterey Bay Aquarium was the perfect place to give birth to her new pup. Mom and baby have been hanging out in the Great Tide Pool there as a way to protect themselves from winter storms. Here's what else is happening in the...

A Los Angeles entrepreneur developing technology for social media background checks sees value in trawling the Web to guess how people behave offline, a controversial topic after the San Bernardino terrorist attack led lawmakers to demand online scrubs of visa applicants.

Some of the sediment to be removed from Huntington Harbour during a county dredging project will end up helping restore a marsh in Seal Beach and the sand at Sunset Beach and Surfside.

The two-dimensional version of President Obama wearing a red and green Santa hat in California Rep. Grace Napolitano's office draws a crowd. Random visitors, and occasionally memberes of Congress, filtered past the door wrapped like a present, to snap a selfie with the commander-in-cardboard. Rep....