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The LAPD says it will make adjustments to a data-driven program it uses to fight property crime but which critics say targets minority neighborhoods.
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake was reported at 12:42 p.m. Tuesday 12 miles from Hollister, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A podcast from the Los Angeles Times and Futuro Studios looks at how Prop. 187 turned California into the progressive beacon it is today.
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Dozens of new apartments for homeless people could rise in Chatsworth after the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to fund a rare proposal to build such housing in the northwest San Fernando Valley.
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Westley Williams is in custody and Ameliano Marshea Jesus Sanchez has been found 12 hours after the child went missing, Hanford, Calif., police said.
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Sachi Hamai is retiring as chief executive officer. She will leave officially in early 2020. She was a low-key figure known for championing women in leadership and implementing the county’s sales tax hike to tackle homelessness.
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Rita Moreno, Laurie Hernandez and Gina Torres will preside over the 131st Rose Parade on Jan. 1. The theme of the parade is “The Power of Hope.”
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Here’s what we know about the San Francisco earthquake’s epicenter and the many fault lines in the region. Also, a map shows the places at risk.
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Southern California Edison tells regulators its system was ‘impacted’ around the time the Saddleridge fire started.
Times Investigations
Nearly 300 drinking water wells and other water sources in California have been found to have traces of man-made chemicals linked to cancer.
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Los Angeles Times reporters found two dozen cases in which a death investigation was harmed by the procurement of body parts.
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How firms helped rewrite a law to make it difficult for coroners to stop them from harvesting body parts.
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The Times found a rising number of death investigations across the country were complicated or upended after transplantable body parts were taken before a coroner’s autopsy.
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The Times found dozens of cases in which autopsy investigations were hindered or delayed by the procurement of tissues or organs — something the industry claims never happens.
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Skelton has covered government and politics for The Times since 1974.
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The L.A. City Council has voted to move forward with an effort to stop landlords from quickly evicting tenants or raising rent before a new state rental law takes effect.
Boise is a midsize city with a manageable homeless population. But it is setting standards for how much bigger cities deal with homeless encampments.
A newly formed group called Homeshare Alliance Los Angeles has been pushing City Council members to permit Angelenos to rent out a second unit to travelers.
No private bedrooms for these L.A. residents. They choose to live in pods or rooms filled with bunk beds.
The Los Angeles City Council will decide whether to halt no-fault evictions after reports landlords are evicting tenants prior to a new state law taking effect.
Over the past four years, lawmakers have quietly chipped away at zoning communities for single-family homes only, opening the door to smaller backyard units.
It began as so many do — while reporting another story. A Times photographer and I were finishing an article about the odd and sometimes ingenious ways that homeless people seek — and find — shelter. Then we heard about a double murder-suicide.
Most homeless people suffer from mental illness or substance abuse, studies show. In response, state law needs to change.
Three people bound by addiction and mental illness were searching for a place to belong. Their journey ended in a double murder-suicide.
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Climate & Environment
An environmental group on Tuesday petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to designate the western Joshua Tree as threatened, a push sure to set off battles with desert developers.
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Los Angeles arson investigators have not determined the cause of the Saddleridge fire, but they do know where it started.
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A geothermal power company says it can make California’s Salton Sea the first major source of U.S. lithium production.
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The Marshall Islands, a key U.S. ally in the central Pacific, has declared a national climate crisis because of the mounting risk of sea-level rise.
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Jane Fonda was seen on social media handcuffed and being escorted by police after her arrest Friday outside the U.S. Capitol.
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Nearly 600 former EPA officials have called for an investigation into President Trump’s authority in response to threats from EPA targeting California.
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Since 1966 USC has cared for the historic Gamble House in Pasadena. Soon the university will hand off management as locals seek more control.
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Felicity Huffman went to a prison in Northern California where she will spend two weeks for conspiring to rig her daughter’s college entrance exams.
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The survey of 181,752 students was conducted at 33 universities including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Northwestern and the University of Oregon.
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A magnitude-4.5 earthquake was felt in the San Francisco Bay Area at 10:33 p.m. Monday, with an epicenter in the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill area.
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A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Sunday evening at 8:55 p.m. Pacific time five miles from Borrego Springs, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurred one mile from Daly City, two miles from South San Francisco and three miles from San Francisco on Saturday morning.
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A magnitude 3.6 earthquake was recorded at 6:11 a.m.
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Customs and Border Protection may be violating the law by holding asylum-seeking children longer than the agency is allowed to, according to lawyers.
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The man was wearing only Nike shoes when he allegedly stole a van and crashed it into a box truck near the 400 block of Broadway around 2 a.m., officials said.
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Gov. Newsom is facing criticism over his decisions for the $5 billion generated annually by gas taxes and vehicles fees that were increased by a 2017 law.
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Investigative reporter Melody Petersen gives context on her blockbuster investigation.
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The massive power shutdown in Northern California last week is likely to be repeated because PG&E has financial incentives to stop electricity during weather emergencies and reinforcing its grids will take years, experts say.
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This marks the first time incumbent Rep. Duncan Hunter has failed to get the Republican Party’s full support.
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The man showed up at a police station with a body in his car, saying he had killed people at his apartment more than 200 miles away.
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake was reported at 12:42 p.m. Tuesday 12 miles from Hollister, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Boise is a midsize city with a manageable homeless population. But it is setting standards for how much bigger cities deal with homeless encampments.
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A magnitude-4.5 earthquake was felt in the San Francisco Bay Area at 10:33 p.m. Monday, with an epicenter in the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill area.
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Here’s what we know about the San Francisco earthquake’s epicenter and the many fault lines in the region. Also, a map shows the places at risk.
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The survey of 181,752 students was conducted at 33 universities including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Northwestern and the University of Oregon.
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Laws & Policy
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday urged PG&E to give money back to hundreds of thousands of customers affected by last week’s outages.
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New California laws for those here illegally include letting them serve on government boards and banning immigration arrests in state courthouses.
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Some money is being shifted from road construction to commuter rail in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help fight California’s war against climate change.
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Newsom’s veto rate for his first year in office was the second lowest of any governor in the last 15 years.
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The governor said legislators should send him a bill that phases out the use of “closed colonies,” where donor dogs are “kept in cages for months and years to harvest their blood for sale.”
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