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.

Despite its reputation as a concrete canal, the Los Angeles River is green in some spots. The city recently announced that the architect Frank Gehry would help revitalize the 51-mile waterway.

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 ...

Imagine the Los Angeles River before its metamorphosis into a concrete flood control channel, and Mark Twain’s quip about falling into a California river and coming out “all dusty” might ...

There's a stretch of the Los Angeles River in the Elysian Valley, roughly midway along its 51-mile route to the sea, where native willows rise from the east bank and arundo—an invasive grass ...

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 ...

Three teens were killed after a car plunged into a canal near the Los Angeles River in Long Beach early Friday morning. 24/7 Live Los Angeles Orange County Inland Empire Ventura County California.

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.