This year started with heavy rains and massive landslides in Southern California, and ended in equally dramatic fashion with wildfires burning across the Southland.
Genaro Molina chronicled the end of an era at the Times’ Olympic printing plant. After making the outsourcing decision, the company announced that the facility, once the crown jewel of its vast media empire, would close in 2024.
Times photographer Robert Gauthier captured all the commotion backstage at the 2024 Emmy Awards as winners returned backstage and presenters waited in the wings. The stars gathered around, read cue cards and watched off-stage monitors.
The Times’ photography staff covered the university’s protests. There, a group of demonstrators at UCLA, one of many universities where students are erecting tents, as part of a wave of protests by students, faculty and staff calling for an end to Israeli actions and divestment in Gaza. collided. From companies that sell weapons and services to countries. Access to the University of Southern California was also restricted to students, faculty, staff and registered guests after more than a week of protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
The sports year ended in 2024 with both the Dodgers and Galaxy hoisting championship trophies, a year filled with ups and downs.
We hope you’ll take a look back at this year’s events through the lens of a Los Angeles Times staff photographer.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Tager and his colleagues have marked up what appears to be a 25-story or more skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles that has been dormant for several years. Construction of Oceanwide Plaza, a $1 billion commercial and luxury apartment complex with three towering unfinished buildings, came as a Beijing-based developer lacked funds to complete it. It stalled in January 2019.
(Allen J. Scherben/Los Angeles Times)
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
A reporter picks up a newspaper that has fallen off a conveyor belt at the Olympic Printing Plant in Los Angeles on February 15.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
The calm waters of Lake Manly in Badwater Basin on the morning of February 26th.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
San Quentin Skunk Works, a nonprofit organization made up of inmates and prison reform advocates, will host a chess tournament on March 5th.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
John Cena waits backstage at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held in Hollywood on March 10th. Nearly nude actor and professional wrestler John Cena prepared for a comical homage to the streaker who crossed the stage at the 1974 Oscar ceremony. Cena presented the costume design award.
(Allen J. Scherben/Los Angeles Times)
Surfers go surfing as the morning sun casts shadows near the pier in San Clemente on March 11.
(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
Vehicles are escorted through a closed section of Highway 1 after a road collapse south of the Rocky Creek Bridge in Big Sur, Calif., April 2.
(Myung Jay Chun/Los Angeles Times)
Pedestrians walk in front of Walt Disney Concert Hall on April 6 in Los Angeles.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
On April 25, hundreds of asylum seekers wait for interviews with U.S. customs officials at the San Ysidro border crossing.
(Allen J. Scherben/Los Angeles Times)
Emory Douglas, a trap and rescue specialist with the Wetlands Wildlife Care Center, rescued a dying brown pelican from Newport Beach’s Balboa Pier on May 8.
(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
Climber Jonathan wears belay glasses that give him a 90-degree view without tilting his head at Robber’s Roost, one of the world’s best rock climbing spots near Las Vegas, on May 13.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Jesse Ortiz practices the ropes in his parents’ backyard in unincorporated Bloomington, San Bernardino County. Mr. Ortiz has helped organize “Cabalgata,” a traditional horseback ride that celebrates the Charo Cowboy lifestyle.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
On May 15, dozens of law enforcement personnel from various institutions joined hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and supporters to protest the treatment of Palestinians and the United Church system’s investment in Israeli interests.
(Dainia Maxwell/Los Angeles Times)
A group from Rare Gems Productions will be participating in the Los Angeles Pride Parade in Hollywood on June 9th.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
Grant Wachter (left) participates in a June 12 rally to protest the shooting of his brother Johnny, an actor who was shot dead after a late night shift at an eighth-floor bar in downtown Los Angeles. Police say Johnny Wachter and Colleagues announced they had encountered the crew. One of the people who tried to steal the catalytic converter from Wachter’s car shot and killed him as he approached. Wachter, 37, has appeared on “General Hospital,” the NBC series “Siberia” and HBO’s “Westworld.”
(Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
Graduates Grace Shelby Romer (left) and Guinevere Kimber dance down the aisle at UCLA’s commencement ceremony.
(Allen J. Scherben/Los Angeles Times)
Mike Anderson in Las Vegas wears a mask and hat while having a drink at the Huntington House in Huntington Beach on July 4th.
(Allen J. Scherben/Los Angeles Times)
Carly Duggan of San Luis Obispo dances in the water during the Fourth of July fireworks show in Huntington Beach.
(Wally Scully/Los Angeles Times)
Pacific Park’s Ferris Wheel on the Santa Monica Pier will be lit up in red, white, and blue.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
On July 5, law enforcement officers investigated the scene of a multiple stabbing that left two people dead at 16th Street and Pelican Avenue in Huntington Beach. Four other people were hospitalized after a man began assaulting Fourth of July protesters the night before, sparking violence.
(Michael Blacksher/Los Angeles Times)
Audience members watch Sheikh’s immersive show experience at Cosm in Inglewood on July 18.
(Jason Almond/Los Angeles Times)
Former President Trump takes the stage at the Republican National Convention on July 18th.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Donald Trump arrives for the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.
(Wally Scully/Los Angeles Times)
Performers attending the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the Stade de France on August 11th.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Vice President Kamala Harris hugs her husband Doug Emhoff as he speaks at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center.
(Gina Ferrazzi/Los Angeles Times)
Mary Seritella, 71, performs at the Comedy Paul Show at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood on September 18th.
(Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
Barbie collector Azusa Sakamoto pictured in West Hollywood on October 15th.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
Maristela Burchietti immerses herself in artist Tadao Saen’s exhibit “BB” during the Balloon Museum’s “Let’s Fly Los Angeles” show at Ace Mission Studios in Los Angeles on October 30th. The museum consists of interactive installations and artwork created by artists. 18 world famous artists. The event is running until March 16th.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
The Dodgers celebrated their World Series victory with a parade down Fifth Avenue in a double-decker bus in downtown Los Angeles on November 1st.
(Allen J. Scherben/Los Angeles Times)
Jenna Fuentes of Harbor City makes angels out of confetti after the Dodgers parade on Nov. 1.
(Wally Scully/Los Angeles Times)
A man jumps into the sea at a Manhattan Beach pier as Christmas approaches.
On December 10th, helicopters sprayed water on the Franklin Fire in Malibu.
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