California

Black people are the overwhelming victims of sickle cell anemia. An experimental gene therapy being tested on Evie Junior, 27, gives him reason to feel positive.

As county health officials try to slow a worrisome coronavirus surge, holiday shopping and family gatherings could pose a danger as people tire of restrictions during a season many hoped would be a reprieve.

California state prisons continue to contend with new, growing outbreaks at multiple facilities amid lapses in tracing, testing and mask-wearing by guards.

As the chasm between red and blue America grows, families across the country are politically divided. For Vietnamese Americans, the gap can be especially profound.

Only 32% of Black adults say they would take a COVID-19 vaccine. That speaks volumes about the need for a reckoning on racism in healthcare and building trust in the communities hit hardest by the pandemic.

A security team assigned to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey shot at suspects during an attempted vehicle theft Saturday evening outside her Granada Hills home, authorities said.

Gov. Gavin Newson has reversed parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, marking the fourth time a governor has blocked her release

Six Buddhist temples in and near Orange County’s Little Saigon community are defaced in the last month.

Most gatherings are banned for three weeks starting Monday.

A governor sending himself to Washington is exactly the kind of naked political opportunism this country does not need right now.

The tobacco industry is turning in signatures for a referendum on the new law banning the sale of flavored tobacco sales effective Jan. 1.

Inmates, including some on death row, are receiving unemployment benefits in what D.A.s call ‘the most significant fraud on taxpayer funds in California history.’

Opposition in white, Latino and Asian communities and tepid support among younger Black Californians defeated a ballot measure to restore affirmative action.

There will still be turkey dinners, but Thanksgiving will be far less festive than usual on L.A.'s skid row this year.

Does your apartment have rent control? Does the rental you want to move to have it? Here’s how to find out in Southern California.

President-elect Joe Biden has proposed a robust plan to jump start housing construction and add new housing subsidies in the U.S.

In major cities such as Los Angeles, rent is falling during the COVID-19 pandemic. But in suburban markets such as the Inland Empire, rent is rising fast.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti trumpeted his homeless program, A Bridge Home, as a means to shore up the supply of interim housing. Results have been mixed.