Thomas Curwen is an award-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked as editor of the Outdoors section, deputy editor of the Book Review and an editor at large for features. In 2020, he received the Meyer Berger Award from Columbia Journalism School for distinguished human interest reporting for a series of stories that followed eight residents of a homeless encampment into housing in South Los Angeles. In 2016, he was part of the team of Times reporters who won a Pulitzer for their work covering a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, and in 2008 he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his story about a father and daughter who were attacked by a grizzly bear in Montana. He has received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for mental health journalism and was honored by the Academy of American Poets.
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Nov. 30, 2023
The downtown Los Angeles freeway is back open, but California leaders have said little about the precise damage, how it will be fixed and what it will cost.
Nov. 22, 2023
Commuters can again drive on the freeway, but repair work is still needed, and there will likely be incremental closures for repairs, officials say.
Nov. 20, 2023
When a series of atmospheric rivers flowed into California last January, the Big Sur coastline was quickly swamped, and Highway 1, a lone life raft connecting San Simeon in the south and the Monterey Peninsula to the north, was overcome.
Nov. 18, 2023
The California State Fire Marshal’s office released a photo and description of a ‘person of interest’ in connection with the massive arson fire that burned beneath Interstate 10.
Nov. 18, 2023
The damaged 10 Freeway through downtown L.A. will be reopened much faster than initially thought. It’s been a ‘crazy push to get this bridge open,”’ an engineer says.
Nov. 18, 2023
Days after a massive fire erupted under the 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, the resulting closure has exacerbated traffic in nearby neighborhoods such as Boyle Heights.
Nov. 16, 2023
A section of the 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles that was damaged by a massive fire over the weekend will not need to be demolished, but repairs will take three to five weeks, officials said.
Nov. 14, 2023
A Caltrans engineer said he expects the best case in getting the 10 Freeway through downtown Los Angeles open as soon as possible. Luckily, the fire didn’t lead to more severe damage.
Nov. 14, 2023
His childhood dream was rooted in Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. $7 million later, he owned a piece of it: the 1937 sardine boat that had plied the Sea of Cortez.
Nov. 3, 2023