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More than 80,000 quakes have been recorded in the Ridgecrest area since July 4 — the aftermath from two of the biggest temblors to hit California in nearly a decade.
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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday 10 miles from Ridgecrest. -
New satellite photos show powerful changes on Earth’s surface from Ridgecrest earthquakes.
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Surfers, sunbathers and campers could soon be asked to shell out more for a day at the beach, with Los Angeles County supervisors poised to approve a set of fee hikes on Tuesday.
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The FBI has conducted a search at the downtown Los Angeles headquarters of the DWP.
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The University of California has opened its doors to the largest and most diverse class of Californians ever for the fall semester of 2019.
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As families savored the final moments of the Stanislaus County Fair, a fight erupted. Four deputies were injured, a horse was punched and five men were arrested.
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Earlier this month, two major earthquakes struck the small city of Ridgecrest in Kern County.
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The Sonoma County Fair is ending its “pig scramble,” in which dozens of children race after squealing pigs, dragging the animal babies out of a dirt pit by their hind legs.
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State receives uptick in complaints from rural residents facing insurance rate hikes, policy cancellations
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College admissions scandal renews scrutiny of recruited athletes to elite colleges.
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The Department of Homeland Security has dismantled or ended multiple programs intended to counter WMD attacks, a Times investigation found.
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The FBI is investigating a secret society of tattooed deputies in East Los Angeles as well as similar gang-like groups elsewhere within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, multiple people familiar with the inquiry said.
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A Southern California father has admitted to paying $250,000 to get his son into USC as a bogus volleyball player and will plead guilty to fraud conspiracy, his attorney and prosecutors say, as the list of wealthy and powerful parents charged in a federal investigation into college admissions fraud grew for the first time Friday since William “Rick” Singer’s decadelong scheme was uncovered in March.
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George Tyndall, the gynecologist accused of sexual misconduct toward hundreds of USC students, was arrested Wednesday and charged with committing more than two dozen felonies at the campus clinic where he practiced for decades.
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Co-chairs of a task force on homelessness want a right-to-shelter requirement. But building large shelters and forcing people indoors may prove difficult.
L.A. County got a record 21,631 homeless people into housing in the past year. But a breakdown of that number obtained by The Times shows a much more complicated picture of who gets housed and how.
HUD says L.A. failed to ensure properties built with public money were accessible to people who use wheelchairs or have other disabilities.
Oregon has advanced the most ambitious response to housing affordability challenges in the country while California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers have struggled to pass strong renter protections and legislation that would significantly increase the state’s supply of homes.
A law allows sanitation crews in Los Angeles to seize and destroy property kept by homeless people on city sidewalks. A new lawsuit challenges that practice.
Foreign purchases of U.S. residential real estate fell 36% to the lowest annual rate since 2013, as slowing overseas economies, the strong dollar and the White House’s anti-immigrant rhetoric put a chill on demand.
A coalition of skid row advocates accused Los Angeles of wanting to give the bulk of skid row over to luxury housing developers, ignoring the thousands of people living in tents and shelters in the blighted downtown district.
When Eric Garcetti ran for mayor six years ago, he rode a wave of anger over the political power wielded by the union that represents workers at the Department of Water and Power — and later vowed to reform the agency that Los Angeles residents love to hate.
Over the last several months, cities and counties across California have been releasing homeless counts.
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Climate & Environment
After a series of tense exchanges over California wildfires, the Trump administration and the state have agreed to continue their firefighting partnership under existing reimbursement rates.
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As Sen. Dianne Feinstein chastises Chevron Corp. for an 800,000-gallon oil spill near Bakersfield, California officials confirm more leaking.
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A biological finding by the National Marine Fisheries Service threatens to derail the Trump administration plan to increase Delta water deliveries to Central Valley farmers.
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After a ‘near-miss’ last year, Southern California Edison said it is confident transfer operations will go smoothly.
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Think of the most radioactive landscapes on the planet and the names Chernobyl and Fukushima may come to mind.
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Talking about global warming with friends and family helps them learn key facts about the scientific agreement on climate change and influences their beliefs.
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The Trump administration has intensified its crackdown on China over trade, technology and security — and now it has spread to America’s vaunted universities, turning the University of California into an especially big target.
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The federal government’s crackdown on China is fanning fears of racial profiling among Asian Americans, who say ethnic Chinese students and scholars are being unfairly singled out as possible spies.
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As actress Felicity Huffman awaits sentencing on a charge of fraud conspiracy, her colleagues on Netflix’s “Otherhood” movie speak out on her behalf.
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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Monday at 9:26 a.m. five miles from Twentynine Palms, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Friday at 11:40 a.m. , 12 miles from Palm Springs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 5:57 p.m. Pacific time 8 miles from Borrego Springs, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake was reported Wednesday evening at 8:59 p.m. near Ridgecrest, Calif.
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Police found bags of cash inside the vehicle of a Santa Rosa pastor following a car crash.
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The man accused of killing off-duty L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Solano at an Alhambra Jack in the Box last month returned to court Monday.
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A fire that erupted at a 99 Cents Only store in Culver City early Monday was still burning four hours after the blaze began.
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Saiara Shams, 41, alleges her co-workers made derogatory comments about her religion and prevented her from moving up the ranks at the L.A. Department of Water and Power.
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Facing complaints from licensed cannabis sellers about the loss of business to the black market, California officials have tripled the number of raids on unlicensed cannabis firms.
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Plus, the biggest stories of the day from across California.
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Three California police dogs have helped survivors of gun violence and rape, and children like the Turpins who have faced years of abuse.
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New satellite photos show powerful changes on Earth’s surface from Ridgecrest earthquakes.
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The FBI has conducted a search at the downtown Los Angeles headquarters of the DWP.
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College admissions scandal renews scrutiny of recruited athletes to elite colleges.
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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday 10 miles from Ridgecrest.
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Surfers, sunbathers and campers could soon be asked to shell out more for a day at the beach, with Los Angeles County supervisors poised to approve a set of fee hikes on Tuesday.
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The California Supreme Court refused earlier this week to hear an appeal by the administration disputing lower court rulings that found the state mistakenly used a portion of the money — paid by large banks and lenders as part of a nationwide legal agreement in 2012 — to pay off housing bonds.
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Some of the governor’s supporters are baffled by his decision to block two Bay Area cities from raising local taxes above state limits, exemptions he said were unneeded.
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Ophthalmologist John Tanton became the unlikely architect of the modern-day anti-immigration movement in the United States through founding and funding propositions, nonprofits, activists and publications on a local and national level over the past 40 years.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom did the right thing with a new law to help utilities pay for costs associated with wildfires sparked by their equipment.
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Like thousands of Central American parents seeking asylum in the United States, Patricia panicked when, after she and her son crossed the Rio Grande into Texas last year, U.S. border agents took the boy away.
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