Through the Los Angeles County Medical Debt Relief Program, more than 134,000 residents’ medical debt will be forgiven — no strings attached.
A decade ago, the posh resort communities of the Coachella Valley produced 38 units of affordable housing a year. Today, thousands of affordable units are planned or under construction in all nine desert cities. So what’s going right?
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Wildlife officials estimate there are now 60,000 black bears in California, roughly triple the figure from 1998. With human-bear encounters on the rise, some rural areas want more leeway to hunt bears down.
An L.A. Times/WeedWeek investigation finds alarming levels of pesticides in cannabis products at dispensaries across the state
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