Finished in 1913, the 233-mile-long aqueduct runs from the Owens Valley in eastern California to the San Fernando Valley and on to countless homes and businesses. Because of Los Angeles ...

As was the case with the Los Angeles Aqueduct (completed in 1913), every inch of route was battled over in courts (and in the papers). In 1928, the Metropolitan Water District was formed for the ...

When the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, it rerouted the Owens River from its natural path through an Eastern California valley hundreds of miles south to LA, enabling a dusty town to grow ...

There are few government agencies more central to daily life in Los Angeles than the Metropolitan Water District of Southern ...

Charlotte Skinner's work depicts unspoiled California landscapes before the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

One example of his effort was the approval of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which in 1913 began rerouting water south from the isolated Owens Valley community to Los Angeles. For NPR’s Throughline ...

Ancient masters of engineering, aqueduct builders created a vast network ... Only when they had no other choice—when they had to cross a valley or avoid a sudden drop—did they build the ...

Aqueducts are one of the wonders of the Roman Empire. These graceful structures are not only majestic, but are engineering marvels that survive to this day. In "Construct an Aqueduct," you are ...

Thieves targeted four pharmacies scattered around the western San Fernando Valley early Friday morning ... the losses Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department are trying to determine ...

Just hours before inmate Freddie Owens was scheduled to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself from the ...