California
The Santa Monica City Council has voted to take out a section of the anti-camping ordinance that allowed homeless people to use pillows and blankets while sleeping outdoors. The new ordinance is scheduled to go into effect next month.
Sept. 13, 2024
Santa Monica leaders will discuss new changes to its anti-camping ordinance, including to a section allowing homeless people to use pillows, blankets, bedrolls.
Sept. 10, 2024
World & Nation
Palestinian officials say Israeli strike on Muwasi, a crowded tent camp housing those displaced by the war, killed at least 19 people and wounded 60.
Entertainment & Arts
Burning Man is a schlep.
Sept. 9, 2024
Kim Kardashian visited a camp in California’s El Dorado County where incarcerated men serve as firefighters.
Sept. 3, 2024
A unique lease gave a community of mostly disabled seniors a safe haven while they awaited promised permanent housing. The city evicted them last week.
The Council of UC Faculty Assns., along with faculty associations from seven UC campuses, filed a 581-page unfair labor practice charge Thursday with California’s Public Employment Relations Board.
Sept. 23, 2024
The Navy will meet its goal to sign up 40,600 recruits by the end of September thanks to several new recruiting programs.
Aug. 28, 2024
Politics
Kamala Harris needs to expand her majority among Black voters to match President Biden’s winning formula from 2020.
Climate & Environment
Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking Californians to take actions in their daily lives to help combat climate change — from composting to taking public transit to avoid driving.