Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

File photo of Billy the elephant at the L.A. Zoo. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times) The decades-long controversy over the Los Angeles Zoo's elephants is intensifying, even after officials announced that ...

A child follows a chimpanzee passing by the window of its enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times) In 2022, Robert Ellis pledged $200,000 to create a garden in the Los ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has welcomed its fifth great ape baby since the start of 2025, marking what park officials are officially ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

After years of debate over the welfare of the animals, the Los Angeles Zoo announced Tuesday that it will relocate its two remaining Asian elephants to a newly expanded preserve at the Tulsa Zoo. The ...

Boo at the L.A. Zoo is back for another year. This fun Halloween event takes place this weekend, October 18-19, and next weekend, October 25-26, with hundreds of guests expected. “Boo at the L.A. Zoo ...

To the editor: As a former Los Angeles resident and native Tulsan, I was distressed to read that L.A. Councilmember Bob Blumenfield thinks that sending elephants Billy and Tina to our Tulsa Zoo is a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Demonstrators held a rally at the Los Angeles Zoo on the eve of World Elephant Day Sunday. Elephant Guardians of Los Angeles held a "Free Billy ...

In 2022, Robert Ellis pledged $200,000 to create a garden in the Los Angeles Zoo's bird theater. By January, the city of Los Angeles had sued its nonprofit partner, the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn., ...