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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...
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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....
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to pull a measure from the Nov. 3 ballot that would have created a pathway to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections....
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday voted in favor of upholding birthright citizenship and while advocates cheered on the highest court’s decision, the topic is close to some U.S. citizens, including a USMNT star. Folarin Balogun said he was born in Brooklyn while his parents we...
A $1.3 million public-private partnership to expand mobile vet care in the west San Fernando Valley was launched Tuesday. The partnership combines an $800,000 grant from City Councilman Bob Blumenfield’s office with a $500,000 commitment from Michelson Found Animals Foundatio...
A proposal to allow noncitizens to vote in Los Angeles city elections will not appear on the November general election ballot after the city council Tuesday decided to further review measure. The motion, introduced by Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, was going to ask LA vote...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old....
The Supreme Court yet again loosened campaign finance restrictions on Tuesday by striking down limits on how much political parties may raise and spend on candidates. By a 6-to-3 vote along ideological lines, the court ruled the law, which had been enacted in 1974, violates poli...
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June 29, 2026 Media Contact: Mike Sanchez: (562) 462-2648 Media Info: (562) 462-3054 U.S. Supreme Court Confirms States May Set Mail Ballot Receipt Deadlines; L.A. County Elections Proceed Under Existing Rules Decision leaves California’s current law intact; no changes for vot...
LA28 chair Casey Wasserman speaks with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on August 10, 2024.(Luke Hales / Getty Images)After months of hand-wringing, Los Angeles and LA28 have come to a tentative agreement on how Olympics organizers will reimburse the city for...
California officials cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to continue counting mail ballots postmarked by election day but received after, even as they work to find their own ways to speed vote counts....
Los Angeles County and California state elections officials hailed a Supreme Court ruling Monday that they said validates the process of accepting mail-in ballots that arrive a certain number of days after Election Day. The 5-4 ruling on an issue that has been a persistent tar...
Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges stemming from the December 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel....
There are tension headaches, migraine headaches, sinus headaches and then there are summer headaches. While they aren’t technically a diagnosable type of headache, experts encourage their patients to take summer headaches seriously. These headaches, says Dr. Jen Caudle, board ...
Before LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho resigned, the school board threatened to terminate him for cause over alleged financial benefits he did not disclose....
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A search and recovery operation is underway after a U.S. Marine, who was serving aboard the USS Anchorage during a training, was reported missing early Thursday, off the coast of Southern California, according to a press release from the U.S. Navy. A search and rescue operatio...
The LAUSD Board of Education has unanimously named Andrés Chait as permanent superintendent following the resignation of Alberto Carvalho amid an FBI probe....
In response to concerns from coastal community members, the Los Angeles City Council temporarily blocked a proposal to build a truck staging area near the Port of Los Angeles....
L.A. County certified 2,227,461 vote-by-mail, in-person, conditional and provisional ballots. The Times compared the process with previous midterm primaries....
