Extreme Heat

Even though the air coming out is pretty warm, Al Manzano, founder of A&M Refrigeration Co., cools his hand on the vent fan outlet on an air conditioning unit on the roof of an apartment building in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Tuesday temperatures, while not as high as the previous day, continued near the triple-digit mark, with elevated humidity for overall muggy weather, in many parts of Southern California. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

What’s the cost to cool Los Angeles? City explores a cooling mandate for all rental units

Los Angeles city leaders directed staff to explore programs to potentially assist low- and middle-income families in paying to install and operate an AC unit.

Poor neighborhoods bear the brunt of extreme heat, ‘legacies of racist decision-making’

Debt Ceiling

President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the budget deal that lifts the federal debt limit and averts a U.S. government default, from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 2, 2023. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls U.S. back from brink of unprecedented default

Biden delivers first Oval Office speech, celebrates ‘a crisis averted’

Debt ceiling vote splits Democratic candidates for Feinstein’s Senate seat

Environmental concerns

WATTS, CA - JUNE 16: An aerial view of Atlas Iron & Metal Co., which is a metal recycler that has piles of metal scrap and debris adjacent to newly-built Jordon Downs public housing, shown at top right of photo, and Jordan High School Tuesday, June 16, 2020 in Watts, CA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Outcry over recycling plant next to Watts high school appears to gain traction

A mediator and attorneys for all parties are projecting a completed settlement by later this year in the legal battle over Atlas Metals, located next to Jordan High School.

California toxics agency to publish lead cleanup reports for homes surrounding Exide plant

California Living

This Heav3n is a genreless, genderless party for the next generation of club kids

Neighbors chat around a table at a block party.

Wanna throw a block party in L.A. County this summer? Start here

A collage of a Union Station platform entrance, a field at Elysian Park, and a student using a telescope at Griffith Observatory

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Golden State

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The blessings and burdens of advancing age

Column: She’s multidegreed and overachieving. Her career choice? Geriatric dentistry

USC gerontology grad, with two degrees in hand and another in the works, wants to serve older adults in her underserved community, columnist Steve Lopez writes.

Travel & Experiences

This Venice Beach pod hotel wants to make sleeping in a box chic

Adventure awaits at these 9 ‘ready-to-camp’ experiences around L.A.

Californians Are Reading

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Dodgers

Home runs by Jake Bauers and Aaron Judge power Yankees past Dodgers

Hernández: What happened after the Dodgers let three key players leave? They got better

What to Watch

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies "Too Pure to Be Pink" EP#102 streaming on Paramount +

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The 14 TV shows we’re most excited for this summer

Opinion

Editorial: Climate change is making California more expensive. Home insurance is the latest bellwether
Granderson: When even Chick-fil-A is angering the right, no company is safe
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Los Angeles, CA - January 14: Incoming Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho addresses a press conference at Elysian Heights Elementary Arts Magnet on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Irfan Khan)

Deal extends L.A. school year, restores 3-week winter break

A sweeping agreement by unions and officials will reboot extra learning days and resolve legal disputes.

FULLERTON, CA - MAY 1,2023 - California State University Fullerton student assistant Cameron Macedonio, 20, left, oversees a staff meeting at Titan Radio where he works as General Manager at California State University Fullerton on May 1, 2023. Macedonio is also a labor organizer who is fighting along with thousands of Cal State undergraduate student assistants who are seeking to establish a union. They want higher pay and benefits. The staff at Titan Radio also work as student assistants. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Campus jobs are a lifeline for these CSU students. Some are looking to form a union

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 02, 2019 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Commander Jason Wolak who oversees Custody Services Division-General Population tours the Men’s Central Jail located at 441 Bauchet St in downtown Los Angeles on October 02, 2019. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Video shows deputy slamming handcuffed inmate into concrete wall at Men’s Central Jail

LONG BEACH, CALIF. - JUNE 2, 2023. Trucks sit along the side of the road in the Port of Los Angeles after Southern California dockworkers disrupted cargo activity Friday, June 2, 2023, at both local ports - major entry points for the country's imports - after contract talks deteriorated in recent days. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Dockworkers disrupt Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, highlighting tough contract talks

Fight erupts at anti-Pride Day protest outside L.A. school where flag was burned

Great white sharks more common off California coast than previously thought, study says

Family pushes back on coroner’s report on cause of death of teacher tased by LAPD

Whistleblower loses $26-million lawsuit over ‘Executioners’ deputy gang

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Bible removed from elementary and middle schools in Utah district
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