It’s no secret that the L.A. Aqueduct, engineered by William Mulholland, is essential to both L.A.’s history and survival—after all, it has piped water from the Owens Valley for over 100 years. But ...

William Mulholland was the savior of Southern California until he wasn’t Matt Blitz The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke ...

Even Angelenos not much interested in state history know a thing or two about William Mulholland: that he's the father of the Los Angeles Aqueduct; that the antagonist in Chinatown was loosely based ...

Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...

Ninety years ago this week, the worst civil engineering failure in California history claimed more than 450 lives and left a path of staggering destruction. The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito ...

It was around midnight, 75 years ago tonight, that Southern California suffered one of the worst disasters in the state's history -- second only to the earthquake and fire that devastated San ...