Carla Hall

The mix of urban settings and nature is what we love about this region. This past week we're reminded just how untamed the wilderness is.

The astronauts have been stuck on the space station since June and have missed a lot of earthly moments.

This is the season for a suspension of disbelief. Come to think of it, don't we always need some magical thinking and radical optimism?

California gives voters until Dec. 1 to fix ballots that lack a signature matching the rolls. The state has the nation's last uncalled congressional race.

I will always cherish the time I spent with a baby elephant being hand-reared at the Oakland Zoo. Now, 28 years later, the zoo made the right decision to retire its last elephant.

Even though state governments set abortion laws now, a Trump administration hostile to abortion access could have a significant and disturbing impact on reproductive rights. Here are some of the ways.

Kamala Harris, the most unexpected and historic of major presidential candidates, has already earned your vote.

Her owner told police that Miss Sassy had been abducted by Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, sparking false pet-eating rumors that were amplified by Donald Trump and JD Vance. In fact, the cat was just chilling in the basement.

U.S. astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are stuck on the International Space Station for the moment. How do you manage when your eight-day visit to space turns into months?

There was no doubt about it. The hulking blond furry animal on a tree trunk illuminated by the headlights of a car in a parking lot east of Barham Boulevard on the edge of Griffith Park last week was a mountain lion. Seriously? In Los Angeles, the beloved mountain lion named P-22 had lived for a decade in Griffith Park. But he was an aberration. It was astonishing that he got there in the first place — most likely crossing dangerous freeways to get to the park, cramped by lion standards, where h…