The great blue heron stood motionless on the edge of Legg Lake in the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area. A few hundred yards away, a young man cast his lure into the manmade waterway fed by runoff ...

Their names hardly do them justice: Mother Dragon, Fish, Two-Headed Dragon, Starfish, Octopus and Tripod. Six colorful, whimsical, playground sculptures surrounding Legg Lake within the expansive ...

SOUTH EL MONTE — Responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the Whittier Narrows ground water treatment plant transferred Friday from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the state ...

Conventional wisdom says stay away from the Los Angeles River — it’s a polluted cesspool swirling with contaminants and industrial discharges. Instead, the thinking should be, swim or fish in the ...

Chris Orr and her husband, Lou, were at Legg Lake in the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area on Thursday watching the cormorants build their nests. Amidst the activity, two double-crested cormorants ...