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Los Angeles, CA - March 18: UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. UCLA nurse Lindsay Brant, left, with nurses Amanda Cooper, right, and Orsi Laszlo, middle, attend to a patient in UCLA's cardiothoracic intensive care unit that supports patients, their families and unit staff during the dying process. Community is a nurse-led initiative that gives nursing staff tools to care for a patient through the moment of death, to lobby for patients' end-of-life preferences and to process their own grief after a loss. Nurses report feeling more connected to patients and to each other. The unit was founded by nurse Lindsay Brant. (Al Seib / For the Los Angeles Times)

‘Show up and share’: How one UCLA ICU helps patients and staff live with dying

Honoring a patient’s death can be life-affirming. That’s the ethos behind an UCLA initiative to support patients, their families and unit staff during the dying process.

Altadena, CA - February 18: Professional mason Cliff Douglas, right, shows homeowner Valerie Elachi, left, how he is removing her Batchelder and Grueby tiles to be preserved after her home was destroyed by the Eaton fire. The home was built for Zane Grey's longtime secretary, which was built in the Pueblo Revival style with two sizable fireplaces. A group of volunteers in Altadena who are working to save historic arts-and-crafts tiles from the hearths of destroyed homes before the U.S. Army Corps tears down the rubble. Photo taken in Altadena Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Masons are carefully chiseling the tiles from their mortar, saving them and eventually, preserving them so homeowners can rebuild their fireplaces in their new homes. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

‘The only thing still left.’ Volunteers race to save Altadena’s vintage tiles from the bulldozers

Huntington Beach, CA - March 09: CSULB Shark Lab researcher Dr. Ryan Logan spear tags a great white shark off Huntington Beach on Sunday, March 9, 2025 in Huntington Beach, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

As baby great whites cruise among California surfers, science finds (almost) nothing to fear

LAGUNA WOODS, CA - JANUARY 04: A Life After Life club meeting takes place on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025 at Laguna Woods Village in Laguna Woods, CA. It was founded in 2006 to provide "public education about experiences that suggest continued consciousness beyond death" according to their website. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

What the dead have to say to the living: Lessons from a psychic reading

After decades in prison, he transformed himself into the Inland Empire’s homeboy news anchor

Lost in a sea of ash: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one’s urn — the search begins

She was one of the first Black homeowners in the Palisades. At 96, she is starting over

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