Since its founding in 1781, the city had always found a reliable source of water—for irrigation, bathing, and drinking—in the Los Angeles River ... of the city’s plaza.

Security at the site was known to be lax, an important detail as accessing the plaza’s towers and other buildings constitutes trespassing. (The Los Angeles City Attorney confirmed to CNN that ...

Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Once billed as a downtown renaissance jewel, the plaza has been unfinished since 2019. It was supposed to serve as a five-star hotel with ...

And finally, in William D. Estrada’s “The Los Angeles Plaza,” we see three centuries of the city’s history unfold in the handful of blocks surrounding its original town square. Estrada ...