California
A ‘Town Center’ is a must for thousands of veterans who will one day live on the VA’s 388-acre West Los Angeles campus. But there is scant agreement on what that entails: hundreds of housing units, or retail and social center for vets living far and wide.
Sept. 24, 2024
Watch L.A.
Sept. 18, 2024
Opinion
A judge’s ruling that VA had failed Los Angeles County’s homeless veterans by not building housing fast enough on its West LA campus should be the motivation for the government to get moving.
Sept. 11, 2024
Letters to the Editor
The West L.A. VA campus was always intended as a haven for veterans, not the sports programs of wealthy schools. Judge David O. Carter made the right ruling.
Sept. 10, 2024
INDUSTRIES
TP-Link Systems, a global provider of networking devices and accessories, acquired 5 Peters Canyon Road in Irvine for $40.6 million, or $ 257 per square foot, from Pendulum Property Partners.
Sept. 20, 2024
Politics
A flaw in the voter registration system showed nearly 100,000 people had provided proof of citizenship when they had not. A court now will decide if they can vote in state and local races, or only federal.
Sept. 17, 2024
Science & Medicine
Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive “dark matter” that makes up a quarter of all matter in the universe. But can it be proven?
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter castigated the VA for failing to use the 388-acre campus to ‘principally benefit veterans and their families.’
Sept. 6, 2024
A reader who taught preschool in Westwood says a nearby homeless veteran she knew showed how badly the VA used its valuable West L.A. property.
Sept. 1, 2024
A lawsuit demands the nullification of leases that allow UCLA and a private school to maintain facilities on land deeded more than a century ago to veterans.
Aug. 27, 2024