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Young voters voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in the midterm elections, driven by economic concerns and disillusionment with President Donald Trump’s war in Iran....
Mayor-elect Raman says she will cut homelessness in half by 2028, end it by 2030. Can she deliver?
Latinos expect more from this country than just kvetching and corruption, blind loyalty and excuses. If we can still believe in this crazy democracy, then others should follow....
Authorities in Poland are investigating a shooting that left six people dead and at least a 15 injured in the Main Market Square in Krakow, a cultural center of the historic city, according to officials. Four women and two men were killed in the mid-day ambush in the city’s popul...
An experimental drug that held great promise in driving down a dangerous form of cholesterol didn’t show any measurable impact on heart attack or stroke in a clinical trial. The failure of the Novartis drug pelacarsen to help people who have high levels of lipoprotein(a) stunned ...
Barri Worth Girvan, a local government veteran, declared victory in the race for District 3 on the Los Angeles City Council after the vote tallies were released Friday evening....
Democrat Aisha Wahab won reelection to the U.S. House in California's 14th Congressional District, securing a full two-year term after previously winning a special election to complete the remainder of former Rep. Eric Swalwell's term....
Pope Leo XIV said Friday that he was "proud to be an American and to exercise the right" to vote in U.S. midterm elections that gave control of Congress to the Democrats in a repudiation of U.S. President Donald Trump and his policies....
An ABC7 analysis of precinct-level election results shows a sharp geographic divide in the Los Angeles mayoral race between Nithya Raman and current Mayor Karen Bass....
Raman prioritized public transit, safe streets and infrastructure projects during her campaign. The mayor-elect has also pledged to get the troubled LAX people mover back on track....
Kelly Gonez, a longtime school board member in the Los Angeles Unified School District, says public school enrollment declines worsened after ICE raids escalated in the city in 2025. District officials say low birth rates and the loss of immigrant children in classrooms mean scho...
L-R: Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller (Mandel NGAN/Alex Wong / AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images) President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm electio...
City Council members from left, Tim McOsker, Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman and Marqueece Harris-Dawson at an L.A. City Council meeting. (Brian van der Brug / Getty Images) Nithya Raman won the race for Los Angeles mayor this week and unseated incumbent Karen Bass without a sin...
Sonja Shaw, Chino Valley Unified School District Board President, speaks at the California Policy Center and PERK event, "A Line in the Sand A Rally for Parental Rights" at Rancho Madera Community Park in Simi Valley, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times vi...
Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim declared victory Friday in the race to be California's next insurance commissioner, with veteran legislator Ben Allen conceding....
Following the alleged gang rape of a student, Cornell's faculty senate passed a no-confidence resolution condemning the school's handling of sexual violence on campus....
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said on Friday that he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss "several weeks" of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a rehabilitation facility....
(Raymond Rivera / LAist) This is the Nov. 6 issue of Make It Make Sense, LAist's elections newsletter breaking down the results of the 2026 general election. You can sign up here to receive issues in your inbox through the end of November. Good morning! We’re beginning to feel th...
Could California become the first state in the country to enact a billionaire tax? Voters will decide on Proposition 40, which is an effort to fund the state's healthcare system....
Some Los Angeles voters say they are optimistic following Nithya Raman's mayoral win over Karen Bass, but they expect quick action on homelessness, public safety, and infrastructure repairs....
File photo: The Mariposa pedestrian bridge damaged by a landslide in San Clemente. (Orange County Transportation Authority) The California Coastal Commission voted Thursday to allow transportation authorities to build a quarter-mile-long seawall just south of San Clemente State B...
The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved an extensive package aimed at fortifying the vulnerable railway along San Clemente's coast, while also attempting to protect the area's shrinking beaches. A hallmark of the permit includes a historic replenishment of sand....
Barrera, 59, the school board president of San Diego Unified, was the heavy favorite as the Democrat in the race, even though the office is listed as nonpartisan....
A Culver City ballot measure that would give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal and school board elections was trailing Thursday.
Bass conceded her loss in a phone call to Raman on Thursday. 'While this is not the outcome we hoped for, the people of Los Angeles have spoken,' Bass said....
As mayor, Nithya Raman will need to be bolder than ever, because that's what L.A. needs. Angelenos yearn for safer streets, an end to homelessness, a renewal of the dreamland that the city has represented for over a century....
From unexpected contestant to winning candidate, Raman's next challenge is daunting: Fix City Hall.
California Democrats won pivotal House races up and down the state in the first election under maps approved by Proposition 50.
Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died....
Isaias is the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and was expected to usher in dangerous conditions when it makes landfall late Friday.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Thursday evening announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the driver who struck and killed an 83-year-old pedestrian in South Los Angeles and fled the scene. Akil Saud Batani-Khalfani, of Los Angeles, was walking eas...
A nearly eight-month stint aboard the International Space Station came to a splashing end for NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 on Thursday, when their recovery vessel safely splashed down off the coast of Los Angeles....
Cyclists ride across the Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles in 2022. (Trevor Stamp / LAist) The city of Los Angeles will establish a fund to clean the 6th Street Bridge, where trash and other waste often pile up on pedestrian walkways. In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the City Cou...
The USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego after its crew spent 321 days away. At least eight members attempted suicide amid reports of poor conditions on board....
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that an ICE agent reportedly shot a New Yorker in a neighborhood near the Bronx earlier today.
A man stands on the boardwalk as he watches waves slam the wooden bulkhead that protects homes on the Peninsula in Long Beach on Sept. 28, 2026. (Thomas R. Cordova / Long Beach Post) This story first appeared on Long Beach Post . After weeks of stifling heat , Long Beach is prepa...
Trash has again piled up outside a notorious Fairfax home, prompting court action as neighbors question whether the problem will ever be resolved.
What's an old item you still use? (Yuriy Gluzhetsky / iStockphoto) A sense of purpose : Whether it's sentimental, useful or just never out of style, we all have that one item that has stuck with us through thick and thin. Listeners of AirTalk, LAist 89.3's daily news show, shared...
Mayoral candidates, from left, Fre’Drisha Dixon, Joseph Soto, Arturo Martinez, Gloria D. Gray, and Raina Carrillo, at the Inglewood Mayoral Candidate Forum held at Inglewood Unified High School on Oct. 7, 2026, in Inglewood (Gary Coronado / The LA Local) Inglewood Mayor James But...
Congressman Jimmy Gomez has faced a number of younger, more aggressive challengers for the 34th Congressional District, but this year, he is seeking a sixth term in Congress while facing a House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. In August, the Hou...
The decision faces a 120-day review by the Board of Parole Hearings, followed by a 30-day window for the governor to approve or deny the release.
The race to become Los Angeles’ next city attorney pits two Democratic candidates with different priorities on public safety and consumer protections. Marissa Roy advanced to the November runoff after winning 43.1% of the vote in the June primary. John McKinney finished second wi...
A proposal to strengthen the independence of Los Angeles County’s ethics oversight system is on the November ballot. Measure E would restructure the county’s existing Ethics Commission and Office of Ethics Compliance into a more independent ethics oversight system. Under the meas...
Los Angeles County voters will decide next month whether to change how labor disputes involving public safety employees are resolved. If LA County Measure A passes, labor disputes involving unions that represent employees such as sheriff’s deputies, district attorney investigator...
A pedestrian is walking past City Hall in Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Topline: The L.A. City Council voted Wednesday to ban tobacco and cannabis shops from selling nitrous oxide, a drug often called laughing gas or...
Nithya Raman's mayoral campaign posted and then quickly deleted a social media video that shows the councilmember saying "Only you can stop fascist liars" and criticizing LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell....
Want to know who’s who in Republican politics? Look no further than the megadonors bankrolling California’s voter ID initiative. Illinois billionaire packing supply magnate Richard Uihlein, who has poured tens of millions of dollars into conservative causes, has contributed $17 m...
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
