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President Donald Trump closed out the Republican’s inaugural midterm convention being held in Dallas with a fervent plea to the crowd to vote as if he’s on the ballot in November....
More beach erosion caused by pounding surf from Hurricane Marie is showing up along the Southern California coastline, damaging homes.
A welcome sign in Santa Ana. (Getty Images / iStockphoto) Voters in November will decide whether to make a sales tax increase, geared toward funding public safety, maintenance and youth programs, permanent . In 2018, voters approved a 1.5% sales tax increase — dubbed Measure X. T...
President Trump speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) To incentivize voters to cast ballots for Republicans, President Donald Trump used his convention speech to promise a divi...
Lindsay Clancy's five-week trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
This campaign season contains all sorts of scenarios screaming for holy intervention. We should pray extra hard to these saints for the next two months....
President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections....
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that oil prices that have surged because of the Iran war likely won’t come down until after U.S. midterm elections....
Mayor Karen Bass will formally step down Thursday as a member of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission.
Two New Jersey travelers are speaking out after helping restrain an unruly passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 618 headed to Newark, saying the man became belligerent, made racial and derogatory remarks and later turned physical with other passengers....
Long Beach neighbors are assessing damage and preparing to rebuild after massive swells battered homes, damaging the boardwalk and eroding sand.
Orange County Rep. Young Kim has removed several references to President Trump from her campaign website as she tries to broaden her appeal to voters in a race against fellow Republican Rep. Ken Calvert....
A federal judge has already halted the plan nationwide, but the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to revive it, arguing the federal government would be seriously harmed by voter fraud if it does not....
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance to extend Fair Work Week scheduling rules to fast-food workers, adding predictable shifts and paid labor-rights training for tens of thousands of employees....
Mari Barke, photographed at the California Policy Center in Irvine in 2024. Topline: An O.C. Superior Court judge increased the economic penalties for Orange County Board of Education member Marilyn “Mari” Barke for failing to report millions of dollars in economic disclosure fil...
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks at a news conference on May 31, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) Mayor Karen Bass is stepping down from the governing body for the L.A. region’s embattled lead homeless services agency on Wednesday, her office told LAist. "Mayor Bass ...
In an interview, Sen. Adam Schiff discussed a wide range of topics including voting rights and the upcoming midterm elections, and the escalating trade war between the U.S. and Canada....
George is following in his father Prince William and uncle Prince Harry's footsteps at Eton.
The Texas Education Board approved a controversial new social studies curriculum for public high schools addressing Islam.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks at a press conference before LAHSA's annual homeless count at El Rio Community School on Feb. 18, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl / LAist) Topline: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she is not available to testify before Congress next Tuesday, but that her offic...
A congressional subcommittee has asked L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to testify over homeless funds.
At least two stolen paintings were abandoned, an official said.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is ordering the release of over 170,000 pages of long-hidden World Trade Center air quality reports and official records on 9/11....
Taking a commercial flight from a U.S. airport generally requires a boarding pass to get anywhere near a gate, security screening controlled by the federal government and careful attention to the contents of carry-on bags. It wasn’t always this way. Travelers once passed through ...
The Los Angeles City Council is set to vote on an ordinance Tuesday that seeks to implement more protections for fast-food workers. Fast-food businesses are lobbying fiercely against the proposal....
Residents cleared debris and reinforced their homes Monday as Seal Beach prepared for another round of high surf and potential flooding.
Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving prison sentences for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents in Beverly Hills, are to appear before the California Board of Parole in March...
Days before California voters receive their mail-in ballots, gubernatorial candidates Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, and Steve Hilton, a Republican, will debate in a nationally televised face-off....
Union members in Wilmington marched in solidarity and celebration Monday, but worry about future jobs and the cost of living, all as politicians court their votes....
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims....
The Civilian Oversight Commission for the Sheriff's Department is fighting with county officials to obtain records related to three use-of-force incidents....
Widespread anxiety over environmental risks and rising costs have turned the rapid expansion of AI data centers into a focal point in midterm elections nationwide....
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman separately explain their environmental positions at a mayoral forum held Thursday at L.A. Trade Tech in downtown Los Angeles. With a little more than two months to go until the general election, the two mayoral candidates runni...
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is retiring at the end of the year, bringing to a close her seven-plus years at the helm of the league and a stewardship that has been transformative and at times tumultuous....
A competitive and at times nasty Los Angeles mayor's race between two city hall insiders saw an endorsement that could shake things up..
Vice President JD Vance says he wouldn't call the U.S. conflict with Iran a “war,” despite recent escalations.
In a forum at L.A. Trade-Tech, the two mayoral candidates differed sharply over the city's environmental performance under Bass's leadership
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is retiring at the end the year, bringing to a close her seven-plus years at the helm of the league and a stewardship that has been transformative and at times tumultuous. Engelbert is the second-longest tenured WNBA president or commissioner, an...
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman separately explain their environmental positions at a mayoral forum held Thursday at L.A. Trade Tech in downtown Los Angeles. Topline: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass described herself as a proven fighter for environmental justice...
L.A. Homeless Services Authority Commissioner Justin Szlasa (Nick Gerda / LAist) Since joining the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s governing commission nearly two years ago, Justin Szlasa has pushed — often uphill — for stronger auditing, transparency and oversight of t...
After the pandemic closed his shop, Hector the Barber bought a yellow school bus and turned it into a mobile barbershop parked right outside USC.
An election worker processes mail-in ballots in June in Industry, Calif. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm ...
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots,...
Mayor Karen Bass speaks at a press conference before LAHSA's annual homeless count at El Rio Community School on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / LAist) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been called to testify before Congress for an investigation into “p...
The Voting Rights Project at UCLA files a lawsuit to stop Americans' personal data from being swept up by the federal government to further Trump's false conspiracy about illegal immigrants voting in elections....
Climate, weather and more will be up for discussion tonight in L.A. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman will each have a chance to lay out their plans for tackling L.A.’s biggest environmental issues, and share their...
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape. The EPA proposal would elimi...
USC non-tenure faculty rallied for union recognition with support from Mayor Karen Bass and Nithya Raman as the university appeals the vote.
Councilmember Nithya Raman at a campaign news conference in May 2026. (Aaron Schrank / LAist ) Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman on Wednesday won the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America L.A. in her challenge to incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. The DSA-LA is a pot...
