The Los Angeles Times

Financial crisis? What financial crisis? The owners of a new, ultraluxury hotel maintain an air of confidence in the face of adversity. The 234-room Pangu Plaza, which opened in December,...

Rotor blades and turbine engines were supposed to be the showcase at the annual helicopter convention in Anaheim, Calif., last month, so pilot James Costa wasn't sure what to make...

Irby Mandrell, who taught his daughter Barbara to play an array of musical instruments at the shop he ran in Oceanside, Calif., then helped guide her country singing career as...

A new airline started by flamboyant British billionaire Richard Branson inaugurated service between Los Angeles and Australia last month, launching the latest volley in a trans-Pacific fare war that has...

Leaders from across the political spectrum vowed Sunday that the first fatal attack on British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 12 years would not derail the peace process put in...

Felicity Huffman has no idea how she has become the patron saint of mothers -- at least screen mothers, as in her television alter ego Lynette Scavo on "Desperate Housewives."...

Mixing it up with the wild dogs of Duroville requires something between bravery and foolhardiness, the sort of quality that sends animal advocate Deanna Pridemore wading into a sea of...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, a U.S.-trained economist who gained international respect and aid donations for the Palestinian cause, said Saturday that he will step down in a move...

Jeffrey Dean Morgan chuckled through cigarette smoke and held up a homemade key chain that had just been passed to him by a stranger. "Look at this," he said in...

Google Inc.'s YouTube and Universal Music Group are discussing a joint venture that would do for music videos what Hulu has done for the online distribution of television shows. The...