A huge prop whale, a plot point for a 1937 comedy called “Public Wedding,” came unmoored from the Warner Bros. prop yard and floated serenely down the Los Angeles River toward the sea.

The Los Angeles River was never a storybook river of the kind that, like the Hudson or the Seine, we associate with great cities. It was an arid, Janus-faced watercourse — most of the time ...

The normally docile Los Angeles River roared to life Monday as extreme weather covered Southern California. Video shows the river swelling from historic rain that saw some parts of the city see ...

Los Angeles Fire Department ground and air crews responded to the rain-swollen river south of Washington Boulevard in the Boyle Heights neighborhood around 5 p.m. Wednesday after getting a report ...

Los Angeles Fire Department rescued the man when he jumped in the River to save his dog. LAFD Daniel Castillo. Both were then hoisted into the helicopter and brought to solid ground, and the fire ...

Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other ... Palm trees and homes are reflected in the Central Arizona Project canal in Phoenix on April 6. The canal delivers Colorado River water to millions of people in ...

After the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened the water taps a quarter-century before, the L.A. River looked like something worse than obsolete — it looked like a killer, of life, of land, of livelihood.