From the Olympics to the Election, there are many cultural highlights from the year and our staff has named their favorites.

New fiction by such favorites as V.E. Schwab, Emma Donoghue and Maggie Stiefvater will be excerpted in a free e-book compilation highlighting dozens of upcoming books.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will take the lead in investigating the exact cause of multiple fires that have swept through the Los Angeles area. A woman was ...