The tea-hued waters of the Los Angeles River were running knee-deep and mostly free of harmful bacteria recently when George Wolfe stepped into the belly of a bobbing, 16-foot canoe.

The first official kayak tours happened in 2011, led by the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. This summer, the river will be open for kayaking, fishing and other activities through Sept. 30.

Raymond, who’s in her 40s, compared the Los Angeles River to New York City’s Hudson and East rivers, where she took up kayaking. New York’s rivers are vastly larger and indeed are major ...

A man being chased by Los Angeles police officers remains on the loose after escaping through the Los Angeles River storm ...

People began building homes closer and closer to the river. In February 1938 a massive storm hit Los Angeles, the river overflowed and wrecked nearby homes, bridges, and office buildings.

The app is an interactive experience for iPhone and iPad that walks a viewer through some of the river's history from the pre-historic era to the present. Point it at a flat surface, and a 3-D map ...

Open in new tab Narrator: The LA River, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the US, 51 miles of concrete controlling a river that once flowed freely across the Los Angeles Basin.

We see it now as a river contained by concrete, but it was very important to the settling of Los Angeles hundreds of years ago. Until 1914, the L.A. River was actually the main source of water for ...

Series 'Los Angeles: An architect's dream' (2/6) The river flows over a vast concrete bed that channels its floods, making it a veritable dumping ground, overlooked by its inhabitants.

Los Angeles Fire Department ground and air crews responded to the rain-swollen river south of Washington Boulevard in the Boyle Heights neighborhood around 5 p.m. Wednesday after getting a report ...