View of Los Angeles’ downtown skyline. Photo by jondoeforty1 via Flickr/CC. Los Angeles is home to 745 of the state’s 1,700 high-rises, and it is the only city in America that requires flat rooftop ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A renovation will do away with a slide that gave thrill-seekers a brief ride on the outside of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. The Los Angeles Times reports the new owner of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California is home to some of the tallest buildings on the West Coast, with two towers rising more than 1,000 feet above downtown ...

(The Center Square) - Federal taxpayers might be on the hook for more than $1 billion over the lifetime of three downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers designed to house the homeless, state records show.

This week we learned that tall buildings in Los Angelesno longer need to have “flat tops,” the rooftop helipads, mandated for fire safety reasons since 1974, that resulted in few helicopter rescues ...

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