As her Inside Safe program enters its second year, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said she is determined to clear the bottleneck keeping homeless residents from getting into permanent homes.
Record rainfall, blizzards and floods — this definitely hasn’t been a by-the-numbers weather year. How can you tell? By the numbers.
An L.A. nonprofit purchased the 1.86-acre lot on Jefferson Boulevard for nearly $10 million. It hopes to transform the parcel into affordable housing.
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Orange County returned 6 acres of land to the Acjachemen and Tongva people. Tribal leaders say it’s a small step in a movement to protect their heritage.
Japan has committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, but the legacy of one of the world’s worst nuclear catastrophes makes that goal harder to reach.
The Supreme Court refuses a Christian free-speech challenge to 22 states’ laws banning ‘conversion therapy,’ which seeks to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
The embattled Golden Globe Awards show the most love for ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Poor Things’ and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’ ‘Succession’ leads for TV.
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