Many volunteer opportunities have cropped up in the wake of the Palisades and Eaton Fires. One of them: Reunite kids with stuffed animals that were abandoned or destroyed when their homes burned down.

Gen Z isn’t playing around when it comes to their love of stuffed animals. Young adults are leading the plush toy boom as the “kidult” frenzy reaches a fever pitch, with millions of videos ...

One man's trash is a trucker's new hood ornament. It can be quite jarring to see a fuzzy little guy on the grille of a massive, dirty, powerful truck, but the reasons behind a teddy bear or retro ...

She founded Comfort Bears in a Catastrophe in 2020 as a way to fill that gap. "We've sent over 15,000 stuffed animals to different disasters across the country, like, we just sent some hurricane ...

Along with a video of Stanley cuddling on a couch with a Simba stuffy, his humans wrote, “I noticed our dog kept taking his baby brother’s stuffed animals, and then I noticed something…” Any toy with ...

A climbing dome in the playground of AFC Preschool in Altadena, burned in the Eaton Fire, on Thursday. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) ...

So lucrative are these playthings that Warren Buffett bought the parent company of Squishmallows, an American purveyor of rotund stuffed animals, in 2022, calling it a money-making “gem”.

A new plush toy modeled after Kirby will appear courtesy of the German stuffed animal manufacturer Steiff. VPC opened pre-orders for the new stuffed toy on its Japan-exclusive ValueMall website.

The mental health effects of battling wildfires are enormous. But firefighters aren’t always willing to ask for help. A spreadsheet allows families to describe stuffed animals they lost in the LA ...

Jan. 31, 2025 — DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ...

100 x 80 cm. (39.4 x 31.5 in.) ...