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Supervisors cited The Allcove Beach Cities mental health center in Redondo Beach as one successful third space serving young adults. (Courtesy Beach Cities Health District )Topline:L.A. County Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to start planning to build a network of "third sp...
High tides and a small swell overtop a berm built to protect a boardwalk and homes on the Long Beach peninsula.(Erin Stone / LAist)The highest tides of the year typically hit in summer and winter — around each solstice. That’s tracking so far this year, but a combination of natu...
A New Jersey man says he was forced to change an anti-war T-shirt before boarding a United Airlines flight after a flight attendant deemed the message offensive....
Neighbors were passionate at Monday's city council meeting. Culver City leaders are moving forward with a major Overland Avenue traffic project and extended a temporary ban on new drive-thrus....
In an effort to address the historic-low water level at Lake Mead, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Tuesday approved an agreement with the federal government to help add water to the reservoir. On Tuesday, Metropolitan’s Board of Directors approved an agr...
President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he’s escalated calls for Republicans to...
A bid to end the biannual practice of changing clocks and make daylight saving time permanent moved one step closer to becoming law on Tuesday. The House voted 308-117 to pass the bill, known as The Sunshine Protection Act, a day after it cleared a key hurdle in the House Rule...
Sheriff's oversight commission is fighting its own county attorneys, arguing they are hindering real oversight over the Sheriff's Department.
A crew member has died after going overboard from a Princess cruise ship that left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the company said Monday. The crew member from the Regal Princess, which left Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades on Saturday, had gone overboard near Cancun. The comp...
A May 2025 file photo of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr(John McDonnell / Getty Images)A program that helps connect schools and libraries to the internet at discounted rates is under review by the Federal Communications Commission. Educators and advocates are bracing for the funding to...
Culver City is considering banning new drive-thru restaurants as an In-N-Out Burger seeks to become the first since 1997. The city initially adopted a temporary 45-day moratorium on new drive-thru permits last month while city staff and the Planning Commission prepared a poss...
Hours after GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death, President Donald Trump said Sunday that he had a preferred replacement in mind but declined to share a name out of respect for Graham. “I have somebody that I think would be great, but I don’t want to say it now because it’s just, y...
The U.S. House will vote on a measure next week that would make daylight saving time year-round.
Conference Board Chief Economist Dana M. Peterson says consumers are abandoning big-ticket items as housing, healthcare, ad insurance costs influence spending....
It's the latest instance of the Republican president trying to exert White House influence over how U.S. elections are conducted.
The White House defended President Trump's dismissal of the bipartisan U.S. Elections Assistance Commission's remaining members as enhancing election security. Critics called it a dangerous partisan move....
Taylor Swift paid the City of New York $160,000 to cover the cost of resources used during her wedding at Madison Square Garden, Mayor Mamdani said Friday....
A passenger on board a flight from Greece to Germany was reportedly partially sucked out of a window when it broke mid-flight.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that the new recall covers Cuisinart Propel+ Four Burner 3-in-1 Gas Grills sold in stores and online between 2024 and 2026....
President Donald Trump urged Congress in April to end time changes and “push hard for more daylight at the end of a day.” Lawmakers are now considering that proposal. The U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, accord...
President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ID bill that he has been pushing. “I will n...
The Inglewood Board of Education, from left, Margaret Evans, Brandon Myers, Carliss McGhee, Joyce Randall and Ernesto Castillo, will regain decision-making power when the district exits receivership. (Mariana Dale / LAist)Inglewood Unified is one step closer to independence more ...
L.A. County education officials say union contracts LAUSD couldn't afford have pushed the district toward insolvency. They threaten to appoint an overseer who can block the school board's spending....
Community concerns over a proposed In-N-Out in Culver City prompted the discussion over a potential ban on drive-thrus.(Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)The City Council in Culver City will consider a citywide ban on new drive-thrus after a group of neighbors raised concerns that a...
Santa Ana voters will be asked in November whether to keep a 1.5% sales tax from sunsetting in 2029.(Getty Images / iStockphoto)Santa Ana’s Measure X — a 1.5% sales tax — is scheduled to decrease starting in 2029, meaning the city could lose out on $30 million in revenue. Voters ...
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has suspended his campaign. Platner said that he and his wife Amy “believe that for the movement to continue, it can’t be me” running, “and for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations.” He added, “This is incredibl...
Los Angeles County public health officials announced Wednesday that a traveler with measles may have exposed people to the virus at LAX and aboard a rental car shuttle after arriving in Southern California last week. The traveler arrived aboard British Airways Flight 281 at LA...
Exhausted Skid Row merchants' rep: "If something is working down here, you can't prove it by me."
Officials said the aircraft, operated by the private carrier K2 Airways, reported a navigational system issue while flying with five people on board.
An apartment building rises above the streets of L.A. (Daniel Hanscom / Getty Images)In what they described as an effort to prevent more corporate landlords from displacing Los Angeles renters, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to move forward with plans to req...
Following a politically charged 2023 case against a Los Angeles deputy who was convicted of using excessive force against two people in Lancaster, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $3 million payout to the victims. The three-year ordeal began in J...
Sorting out Measure ULA p...
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, center, at a City Council meeting with Councilmember Megan Kerr, left, and Councilmember Suely Saro, right, in Long Beach on Feb. 20, 2024.(Thomas R. Cordova / Long Beach Post)Get out your calculators, Long Beach. It’s budget season, and you have ...
In addition to high-stakes U.S. House races, California voters in November will also weigh in on a slew of ballot measures.
Council member Billy Mills (forefront) is shown in City Hall council chambers during a commendation ceremony acknowledging the City Delivery Centennial circa 1963.(Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation / Los Angeles Public Librar...
Mayor Karen Bass Sunday paid tribute to Billy G. Mills, the trailblazing former Los Angeles City Councilman and judge who died last month at the age of 96. Mills died at his Los Angeles home on June 27, his son James Edward Mills said. “Today, Los Angeles mourns the passing...
Billy Gene Mills was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1963 and served until 1974. He was also the first Black graduate of the UCLA Law School....
In a letter to Mayor Bass and Supervisor Solis, the CEO of Lineage raised concerns about the work stoppage from Altus Power and asked them to intervene and allow demolition to proceed....
Santa Ana welcome sign(albertc111/Getty Images / iStockphoto)Santa Ana voters could be asked in November to maintain the city’s 1.5% sales tax, which was set to decrease in 2029 and eventually expire.Voters approved the citywide sales tax in 2018 on the condition that it sunset i...
President Trump has spent months waging an unusually aggressive campaign to reshape how states run elections.
The LA City Council has approved a massive redevelopment project in the Skid Row area that will cost an estimated $2 billion.
California is finally nearing the end of the ballot counting from its June 2 primary, a tediously slow process that is largely the result of multiple changes over the years....
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) voted against AB 2753, which would have banned sex offenders from running for office. The vote failed 2-1-2 in committee....
Aerial view of a new construction home in Encino in 2024.(Wirestock/Getty Images / iStockphoto)Despite multiple efforts to put reforms on the November ballot, Los Angeles voters will not get to decide whether to roll back the city’s controversial “mansion tax” on apartment buildi...
The LA County Sheriff's Department is actively enforcing California's daylighting law and a vehicle ordinance, issuing $63 fines for parking too close to crosswalks....
While many parts of the country recognized June as Pride Month, Fresno County voted to proclaim it 'Traditional Nuclear Family Month."
New budget deals means that California voters in November will select a new schools superintendent with an uncertain, but more limited role in education....
Big questions remain about where L.A.'s chronic homelessness crisis will stand when Olympic visitors arrive for the 2028 Games(Apu Gomes / AFP via Getty Images)At a Tuesday L.A. City Council committee meeting on the coming Olympics, a city-appointed civil rights expert skewered L...
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L.A. County will pay the family of a man killed by sheriff's deputies $9.6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. (Brian Feinzimer / LAist)The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agreed to pay $9.6 million to the family of a man fatally shot by sheriff’s deputie...
A voting sign at Cal State Los Angeles in Los Angeles on June 7, 2022.(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)Topline:The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday pulled a ballot proposal for November that could have led to non-citizens being allowed to vote in council and school board election...
In a major shakeup ahead of the November election, the L.A. City Council pulled a measure that would have asked voters to allow noncitizens to vote in city and school board elections....
