California
Days of missed programming ended Saturday as Disney and DirecTV reached an accord, thus ending a 13-day blackout a day before ABC was set to host the Emmys.
Sept. 15, 2024
Hollywood Inc.
Disney and DirecTV agreed to a new distribution deal, restoring ESPN, ABC and other channels for more than 10 million DirecTV and U-Verse customers.
Sept. 14, 2024
The Disney-DirecTV dispute is in its second week. Over the weekend, DirecTV filed an FCC complaint, alleging Disney had failed to negotiate in good faith.
Sept. 9, 2024
Disney pulled its channels from DirecTV and U-Verse on Sunday, just minutes before a highly anticipated USC-LSU college football game. DirecTV has offered credits to customers as the blackout reflects building tensions in the TV industry.
Sept. 3, 2024
Lifestyle
Play the L.A. Times News Quiz to find out which fast-fashion company is coming to Beverly Hills, which bobblehead went viral and what the new docuseries from the “Tiger King” director is.
Sept. 6, 2024
Climate & Environment
Experts warn that a frenzy of data center construction could delay California’s transition away from fossil fuels, raise electric bills and increase risk of blackouts
Aug. 12, 2024
World & Nation
The increase will affect 1.5 million households connected to the grid, which continues to crumble amid a lack of maintenance after Hurricane Maria in 2017.
July 1, 2024
Recipes
This Salvadoran sopa de res, beef and vegetable soup from Karla Vasquez’s “The Salvisoul Cookbook” is both easy and celebratory — not just a meal but an event — refreshing and satisfying at the end of a day.
April 9, 2024
A power company in Puerto Rico has restored electricity to most areas affected by a massive outage that hit the U.S. territory this week.
June 13, 2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is critical to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves.
April 25, 2024