Alene Tchekmedyian

To report this story, The Times filed public records requests to all 50 states for dog export records, the 58 counties in California for dog import

A Los Angeles Times investigation found a pipeline of puppies from Midwest breeders that are sold in California as locally bred.

Following a Times investigation, California stopped destroying records that contain key details about the state's underground puppy market.

California vowed to shut down colonies where hundreds of captive dogs supply blood for veterinary care. But blood from the closed colonies is still crucial for saving lives.

The investigation of Lt. Garrido led to criminal accusations against a captain.

Inside a subzero freezer at a Northern California pet hospital sit rows of carefully labeled bags of fresh frozen plasma. Each pouch could save a pet’s life: a retriever that

As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency

The NWS has reissued a ‘particularly dangerous situation' warning for swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, cautioning of high wind gusts, dry air and a higher risk of rapid fire spread and extreme fire behavior.

Thirteen years ago, LAFD took the type of dramatic measures in preparation of dangerous winds that the department failed to employ last week in advance of the Palisades fire.

With more dangerous winds coming, LAFD says it has staffed all of its available extra engines and staged more than two dozen engines in fire risk areas, measures they failed to take ahead of the deadly Palisades fire.