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Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson and City Manager Tom Modica unveiled a proposed fiscal year 2027 budget that would eliminate a net 413 city positions, with city officials estimating about 180 occupied employees could ultimately lose their jobs if the spending plan is approved. Th...
Many residents in Hyde Park say a project that was supposed to celebrate their culture and history has instead done years of damage to their neighborhood. Destination Crenshaw — an effort led by Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson — was originally supposed ...
The executive board for Service Employees International Union California voted Wednesday to take a neutral position on the tax, which will appear on the ballot as Proposition 40....
Asylum seekers queue at the entrance of Mexico's Refugee Help Commission and UNHCR offices in Tijuana, Mexico on January 24, 2025. (Guillermo Arias / AFP via Getty Images) The Trump administration, for over a year, has chipped away at immigrants' ability to claim asylum, undercut...
A 10-year-old boy may have saved his sister's life before losing his own in the Passaic River, according to the mayor.
State officials are pushing back on the Department of Homeland Security’s claims that it found tens of thousands of noncitizens on their voter rolls, asking the department to explain how it arrived at its conclusion. Ahead of President Donald Trump ’s primetime speech from the Wh...
It is now illegal to drop off homeless people from different regions in the city of Riverside without providing a 24-hour notice, officials reminded the public Thursday. After the city adopted an ordinance on June 9 requiring advance notice when unhoused people are transported in...
The massive Macy's sign shaped like a red shopping bag, white tissue paper poking out above the handles, has come down from the flagship Herald Square store after over 30 years....
FBI agents executed search warrants at homes and offices tied to a San Bernardino County supervisor, an Ontario city council member, a prominent lawyer and a Chinese American media company, spanning multiple Southern California cities....
The Jail complex in downtown Los Angeles (Robert Garrova / LAist) Topline: A proposed charter change aims to ensure that a portion of the Los Angeles County budget be set aside for programs that fund alternatives to jail. The measure, approved Tuesday by the county Board of Super...
A permit application to rebuild the Lineage cold-storage warehouse has been met with fierce backlash from politicians as well as residents who are still contending with putrid odors and health concerns....
The ABC7 data team analyzed the results from the mayoral race and created this interactive map showing the results in each city precinct.
The lawsuit seeks to change the ballot's summary.
'Resentment is a luxury I can't afford,' writes Ruby Rippey in Vanity Fair. Her first-person essay offers the most intimate description yet of the affair with the then-mayor of San Francisco....
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to put a measure on the November ballot to amend the county charter to restore funding for incarceration alternatives that had been inadvertently repealed....
The mayor is asking for private companies to come forward and run five supermarkets that will be owned by the city.
Critics of the L.A. Sheriff's Department say law laws are getting in the way of civilian oversight of the troubled department. (Luke Hales / Getty Images) Civilian commissions that review the conduct of local law enforcement agencies have long been criticized for lacking teeth. O...
Estuardo Mazariegos and Jose Ugarte both said they are committed to representing all their constituents equally, including Black residents who have expressed concerns about the change....
The California Voter Foundation, a nonprofit group with a mission to improve the election process for voters, issued a report pushing for several changes to the ballot signature-curing process....
The city of Orange will ask voters in November if it should become a charter city. (Carol M. Highsmith / Courtesy of the Library of Congress ) Voters in Orange will decide in November if the city should become a charter city. The City Council approved 4-3 at its July 14 meeting t...
A mock-up of President Trump's proposed triumphal arch, pictured during the state fair on D.C.'s National Mall in June. The real thing needs to undergo a historic preservation review before it can be approved. (Jen Golbeck / AP) An advisory council packed with allies of President...
Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state's June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot....
A LAHSA Commission meeting held on Friday, on April 25, 2025. (Samanta Helou Hernandez / LAist) Topline: The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission unanimously approved a $496 million budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year, moments before the agency released its annual ho...
A campaign ad targeting Inglewood's stadium owners lights up a video billboard in downtown Inglewood. The ad was paid for by a campaign committee funded by billboard company WOW Media. (Isaiah Murtaugh Barish / The LA Local) This story first appeared on The LA Local . Inglewood v...
The city administrative code requires records to be retained for at least two years.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing a setback in her efforts to reduce homelessness as the city's latest homeless count is expected to show a modest increase....
Riders could have a say in the decisions made by the Los Angeles Metro Board. (Martin Romero / CalMatters) The Los Angeles Metro Board voted unanimously Thursday to move forward with a plan that would create the first-ever seat for a regular transit rider on the agency’s governin...
The numbers from this year's point-in-time homelessness count delivered a major blow to Bass, who is seeking reelection and has made the issue a central part of her agenda....
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass responded Thursday to the latest point-in-time count, which is expected to show that the number of unhoused people across the city is on the rise after two years of decreases — an unpleasant look for the incumbent who has made tackling the homeless cr...
The U.S. Capitol is seen from the Cannon House Office Building on July 22. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP) The House on Thursday approved a resolution to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran, in a vote that reflected growing frustration inside Congress over the war and the ab...
First Amendment organizations Thursday threatened litigation against the Los Angeles City Council if they fail to rescind a word ban placed on speakers, arguing the rule violates the Constitution and state law. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the First Ame...
A panel of federal health advisers on Thursday narrowly recommended easing access to several peptides popular with wellness influencers and celebrities, despite warnings from government scientists that the chemicals haven’t been shown safe or effective. In a series of votes, outs...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s role in clearing Folarin Balogun from a mandatory one-game ban at the World Cup is set to provoke a formal complaint to FIFA ethics investigators. The Norway soccer federation said Thursday its board of directors will consider filing the complaint at...
A 1936 Los Angeles law prohibits playing baseball, basketball, soccer or any other ball game on a city street or sidewalk.
At a campaign stop in Boyle Heights, Trump-endorsed Steve Hilton sought to appeal to voters frustrated with California while distancing the race from national politics...
At her Wednesday address at Union Station in downtown, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said public transit is a powerful tool to improve quality of life. (Kavish Harjai) Topline: On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass kicked off her second tenure as chair of the Metro Board, saying she...
The vote tally was 216-214, with all Democrats opposed.
Jollibee has been voted the No. 1 Best Fast Food Fried Chicken in America for the third consecutive year in USA TODAY's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.
They were added while applying for driver's licenses or identification cards.
As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is set to chair the LA Metro Board of Directors in the coming months, she emphasized the critical role of the transit agency ahead of the 2028 LA Olympics during her speech on Wednesday. Bass was given a ceremonial gavel Wednesday as she is set to ...
Passengers wait to board a Metro train. (Samanta Helou Hernandez / LAist) For decades, the Los Angeles Metro Board, which runs the countywide public transit system that sees more than 1 million daily riders, has operated without a member of the public who regularly rides trains a...
What to Know Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton will square off in the November election for California governor. Becerra is the former Health and Human Services secretary in the Biden administration. Hilton was born in the United Kingdom, where he worked as an a...
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks at a news conference before LAHSA's annual homeless count in 2025. Next to her are LAHSA's then-CEO Va Lecia Adams Kellum and LAHSA's then-Chair Wendy Greuel (far right). (Carlin Stiehl / LAist) L.A.’s homeless services agency has not completed any in...
The House moved Tuesday to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall’s critical midterm elections by passing a bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 4. The deadline for action is more than two months away, but House GOP leaders are not leaving to chance...
The downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers, which have served as a hub for graffiti artists, vandals and daredevils, will be cleaned up in the next 90 days, the office of Mayor Karen Bass said this week. Just two years out before the 2028 LA Olympics, the new proposed owner of the Ocea...
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a motion calling for the county to support California’s lawsuit seeking to block Paramount Skydance’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, one day after a federal judge temporarily halted the $110 billion merger. “The Board is las...
The new Air Force One is undergoing an upgrade that's expected to put the Qatari-gifted jet out of commission for about a month, President Donald Trump said on Sunday....
Some Amazon Prime customers are eligible to receive compensation as part of a $2.5 billion antitrust settlement, but the deadline is quickly approaching. Last September, Amazon settled with the Federal Trade Commission to pay customers after allegedly coercing them into enrolling...
Family and friends remembered the 19-year-old man as a devoted son and brother and a gifted baseball player.
The Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles, where the L.A. County Board of Supervisors meets.(Samanta Helou Hernandez / LAist)Topline: Members of the public have until July 26 to submit their applications for L.A. County’s first Ethics Commission.Why it matte...
Mayor John Heilman estimated that between 150 and 200 vehicles were damaged or destroyed in flooded garages.
Mayor Karen Bass talks priorities for...
