LOS ANGELES — Downtown in the City of Angels is looking more and more like a ghost town. The famed Los Angeles neighborhood has become a shadow of its former glory — with rows of boarded-up shops, ...

I didn't decide to move halfway across the country on a whim. I had been thinking about leaving Chicago for the cool vibe, gorgeous weather, and beautiful, sprawling landscape of Los Angeles for many ...

Early last year, vandals breached fencing, climbed dozens of flights of stairs and painted bold, colorful graffiti on the exterior of three unfinished high-rises that make up the abandoned Oceanwide ...