Howard Fine

Pharmaceutical companies have been racing to develop effective pain treatment alternatives that don't have the addictive properties of opioids

The slide in local airport passenger traffic continued through the first half of the year – and not even the 2026 FIFA World Cup could offer any relief.

Bond downgrade clouds opening. So close, yet so far. The long-delayed $3.3 billion SkyLink automated people mover project at Los

Long Beach-based California Resources Corp ., the state's largest oil and natural gas producer, has purchased an Irvine-based pipeline company and plans a data center next to its Kern County oilfield operations.

El Segundo-based nuclear microreactor developer Radiant Industries Inc. has snagged a U.S. Army contract worth up to $750 million to deploy about 15 of its microreactors at military installations and for other critical national security missions.

T he first Metro rail project built entirely within the San Fernando Valley has its builder: a joint venture of Stockholm-based Skanska and Alameda-based Stacy and Witbeck Inc. , which was awarded a $1.9 billion main construction contract.

W ith less than two years before Los Angeles host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved more than $70 million in constructions projects to ready the waterfront near San Pedro for the boating competitions.

Elysian Park-based civil engineering and construction management firm Cordoba Corp. has received a private investment from New York-based VSS Capital Partners

The revolving door of chief executives at downtown-based nutrition supplement maker Herbalife Ltd. is making yet another turn.

George Joseph , a World War II bomber pilot who went on to found Mid-Wilshire-based insurance company Mercury General Corp. and in his final years was the world's oldest billionaire, died on Aug. 26. He was 104.