Garden Gate
The Giving Garden
This award-winning garden is rooted in personal connections.
8 min |
Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Horticulture
A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE
How quantum computers may help us recognize and build more perfect ecologies
4 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS
Meet the 2025 class of ornamental AAS winners
8 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
RAIN, HAIL & SNOW NETWORK
In this collaborative, volunteers measure and help map precipitation
3 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
A YEAR-END REVIEW
Looking back at some highs, lows and lessons learned in the 2025 gardening season
6 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
Cutting Gardens
You don't need a sprawling estate to grow your own bouquets
4 min |
Winter 2025
Los Angeles Times
A Google tool exposes weaknesses in schools’ AI policy
A few months ago, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles Unified noticed something different about his students’ tests. Students who had struggled all semester were suddenly getting A’s. He suspected some were cheating, but he couldn't figure out how.
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
For Kathleen Madigan, the middle is just fine
Midwest comedian’s irreverent humor is showcased in new Prime Video special.
6 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Amid nurse shortage, student loans targeted
Trump administration proposes cap on amounts for graduate school
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Fire agencies face scrutiny over failure to stop rekindled blazes
Firefighters knew the charred skeleton of a tractor still was smoking when they left the valley floor in Ventura County last year, but didn’t think it posed any danger.
6 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Migrants detained despite court wins
Attorneys observe an escalating trend of the government holding people indefinitely.
6 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
SUV hits L.A. ambulance; 5 hurt
At least five people were taken to a hospital Sunday night after a car collided with an ambulance that was transporting an elderly patient in the San Fernando Valley.
1 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
State’s Indian truck drivers idled in license purge
A terrible crash made them a target. Many also stay off road for fear of deportation.
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
'Super Bowl Shuffle' perfectly in step with its era
HBO documentary revisits Bears’ 1985 music video that ideally matched iconic team with the rise of MTV.
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
A pro-housing move at Coastal Commission
Criticized as an obstacle, agency signals a shift
6 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
A terrifying roar from under the floor and bear's jig is up
Kenneth Johnson first noticed signs of an uninvited guest living under his Altadena home earlier this year.
2 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Bedecked halls at White House show first lady’s touch
First Lady Melania Trump on Monday unveiled the holiday decorations for her family’s first Christmas back at the White House and her theme is “Home Is Where the Heart Is.”
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
No LeBron? Again, no worries
Doncic (34 points) and Reaves (33) lead surging Lakers past the Pelicans
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Local planning afoot for the upcoming World Cup
For organizers of the 2026 World Cup, Friday's tournament draw is alike the bell lap of a long-distance race, the moment when the slow slog turns into a sprint.
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
U.S. peace talk focus shifts to Moscow this week
Diplomats face an uphill battle to reconcile Russian and Ukrainian “red lines” as a renewed U.S.-led push to end the war gathers steam, with Ukrainian officials attending talks in the U.S. over the weekend and Washington officials expected in Moscow early this week.
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Killing survivors is not a legal or moral gray area
OVER THE LONG weekend, new reporting from the Washington Post indicated that U.S. forces conducting counter-drug operations in the Caribbean have fired second missiles at people who survived an initial strike and were left swimming in the water.
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
The symbiosis of wings and the widescreen
Hollywood has long had a complicated relationship with aviation, but the bond has been, on the whole, mutually beneficial
7 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Master of plot and bon mots
British playwright Tom Stoppard reinvigorated the comedy of ideas.
5 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
W.Va. guardsman shows positive signs
A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last week in a brazen daytime attack in Washington remains in serious condition but showed positive signs by giving a thumbs-up that he could hear a nurse’s question and wiggling his toes, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Monday.
1 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
San Francisco Opera has a spectacular hit with ‘Monkey King’
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s work based on a Chinese folktale impresses.
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Fight over evidence in killing of healthcare CEO
Luigi Mangione watched stoically in court Monday as prosecutors played surveillance videos showing the killing of United Healthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last year and Mangione’s arrest five days later at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
The American West’s most iconic tree is disappearing
Settlers relied on the strength of the now-vulnerable ponderosa
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Desert kingdom shows its greener charms
Saudi Arabia wants its highlands to be a must-see destination for foreign visitors.
5 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
UCLA calls audible, taps Chesney as its next coach
Bruins are set to hire rising leader from James Madison in big shift for the program.
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
California utilities try AI to combat costly wildfire liabilities
One company helps spot problematic trees; another suggests investments in safety.
4 min |