LOS ANGELES — The 2028 Olympics will be the first to feature more women than men, the International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday after approving the medal events and athletes quota for them.

The IOC announced an athlete quota of 10,500 in 31 core sports, which matches the Paris Games, the first Olympics to achieve gender parity. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One of the cornerstones in LA28's Olympic venue plan has fallen through.

Santa Monica officials announced Tuesday that formal talks with the organizing committee for the 2028 Games about hosting Olympic beach volleyball have ended.

Santa Monica State Beach was tabbed to be the L.A. home for Olympic beach volleyball since the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The city of Pasadena announced the Rose Bowl is hosting men's and women's semifinal and final soccer matches as the 2028 Olympic venues list continues to take shape ahead of the Games.

Pasadena's agreement with the LA28 organizing committee was announced on the same day the city of Los Angeles and LA28 worked through complex ...Read more

A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder who allegedly became the head of a transnational drug organization and ordered numerous killings was added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list Thursday.

Federal investigators announced at a news conference in Los Angeles that Ryan Wedding, who participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt...Read more

When Gary Hall Jr. saw the flames of the Palisades fire rapidly approaching, he grabbed his dog Puddle, a few family mementos, his insulin and left everything else behind — including five gold, three silver and two bronze Olympic medals that he had tucked away in a closet.

When he fled his home on Lachman Lane Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, nearby ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gary Hall Jr. didn't think anything of the small, off-colored cloud he saw from inside the kitchen of his Pacific Palisades home Tuesday morning.

Then he noticed a narrow plume of smoke in the sky that doubled in size within a minute.

And he smelled smoke.

By the time he saw flames coming out of houses uphill in the distance, ...Read more