Steve Lopez

I’m here to tell you how lucky I’ve been for half a century, why I wouldn’t change a thing if someone loaded me into a time machine, and why, even though I’m buckled into a seat on the Hindenburg.

Alzheimer’s is the nation’s seventh-leading cause of death. How can a deeper understanding of a set of unremittingly cruel brain diseases not be a priority?

Many older Californins believe ‘democracy is in peril.’ But can outrage over Trump spark a winning strategy for the opposition?

At Leisure World, where they’re lining up to fight threats to Social Security, a resident has a request of Elon Musk: ‘Please fly to Mars’

‘Can you believe we’ve been friends for 20 years?’ A chance encounter brought Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers together — and to Disney Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and the White House.

Toothbrushes, slippers, hearing aids, walkers — all lost in the fire. Here’s how people in their 70s, 80s and 90s are starting from scratch.

Here’s the reason all development proposals for the coast are exhaustively reviewed, with the perils of sea level rise in mind, and in the interest of protecting marine and shore habitats

Trump hammered the cost of groceries on the campaign trail, promising to lower them immediately, but that didn’t happen. Makes you want to throw eggs, but they’re too expensive.

To columnist Steve Lopez, the firing of the Los Angeles Fire Department chief looks like an act of political desperation as much as a take-charge moment by Bass.

In West Altadena, one homeowner who lost everything says, ‘Your possessions can go poof in a second. These connections we all share — that’s what the real stuff is.’