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Minority and low-income women in Los Angeles County are more likely to have limited access to healthcare and struggle with chronic diseases, according to a new report by the Department of Public Health. The report, “Health Indicators for Women in......

A decade after a canine distemper outbreak killed nearly its entire population, the endangered Catalina Island fox is making a comeback. About 1,200 of the 1,300 foxes on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California, died as a......

Posted by Hal Dardick at 1:20 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley continued his census push today in Humboldt Park, where officials believe residents were undercounted in the last U.S. Census. “It doesn’t matter what status you are, you have to be......

Some like it hot. Apparently, the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog is not among them. The 3-inch-long amphibians much prefer it cold as melting snow. So conservationists at the San Diego Zoo have placed two dozen of the nearly extinct frogs......

Others may say they can never be too rich or too thin. But in my house, the thing we can never get enough of is sleep. Turns out plenty of Americans – but certainly not all – agree, according to......

The book Coates is talking about is, of course, "Black Like Me." DARING THE 'HATE STARE' A White Man Turns Negro (This is the first of two exclusive columns on the remarkable story of a white author who turned "Negro" to get the facts on discrimination in...

Community leaders and celebrities announced a new multimedia campaign in Los Angeles on Wednesday aimed at getting young Latinos to participate in the U.S. Census. During the news conference at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, speakers invited...

ADELAIDE, Australia — The discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped out by a contagious cancer that has decimated the population, Australian scientists said Wednesday. So far, the colony in...

March 16, 1920: Unfortunately, this editorial is nearly impossible to read, but it’s worth the struggle. I rarely republish The Times’ old editorials because they are usually an embarrassment (the U.S. doesn’t need a federal anti-lynching law, donâ€...

by Clement Tan The director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs today exhorted Latino Americans to participate fully in the 2010 Census data collection, as Census forms begin to trickle into American homes this week. At an event......

TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK, Kenya — Tracking the wounded elephant to its deathbed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush. Poachers'......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday joined other city leaders to encourage residents to fill out and submit their census forms, saying that the undercount in the last census cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars in federal......