Even in Los Angeles, a city dissected by highways and freeways and with busy ports and train lines, there are still places ...

“The pull for me was the greenery,” Montes told me recently when we got together to reminisce. “The mountains, the oxygen, open spaces and trails,” as well as the privacy and sense of safety, all ...

M y wife — as usual — understood the situation before I did. The night before, Monday, Jan. 6, we’d both been awoken by the ...