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Mayor Eric Garcetti says he’s confident manufacturers will meet demand and additional COVID vaccines will be approved. But many more doses are needed.
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Much of December’s distress was driven by hotels and restaurants closing, as tourism and business travel failed to revive and dining out was restricted.
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The LAPD’s use of officers on horseback to confront a crowd in downtown L.A. on Inauguration Day is being condemned as a violation of past reforms.
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California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra’s office says it will look at whether the department has engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional policing.
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Backers abandon plans for a temporary Ferris wheel-like attraction they presented as a COVID-safe diversion at San Diego’s Balboa Park.
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The master tenant of a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse where 36 people died when a fire ignited during a dance party in 2016 pleads guilty to the deaths.
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The test strip will help determine whether the wearer has the coronavirus or has been exposed to it.
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California spent nearly $19 million for a week of high security around the state Capitol and other places during the inauguration of President Biden.
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Mexican mothers searching for their missing children find multiple bodies buried on private property in Tijuana that they call a cartel dumping site.
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On homelessness, the new Biden administration is offering to spend more on the problem — but it will need buy-in from Congress.
State Laws, Politics & Policy
The lead plaintiff in a 2015 lawsuit against the L.A. Department of Water and Power, is suing the city again over the agency’s billing errors.
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Rich Californians pay a lot in taxes, but if you’re in the middle class, our state compares very favorably to other states.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said 1 million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine would be administered in California over the course of 10 days. But due to the state’s data collection issues, it is unclear whether he met that goal.
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Biden was inaugurated in a city that depressingly resembled an armed camp — as did California’s state Capitol and statehouses around the country.
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Review of allergic reactions linked to a specific lot of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine found “no scientific basis” for withholding it
California: Most read
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Trying to create a social pod so her daughter could again play with her friends led this mom down a rabbit hole of awkwardness, rejection and frustration.
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California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra’s office says it will look at whether the department has engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional policing.
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Experts say California’s brutal winter COVID-19 surge is largely driven by complacency on masking and distancing. One calls it ‘COVID resentment.’
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On Tuesday in Los Angeles County, those 65 and older began signing up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments. But it will take time to inoculate everyone.
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Since the start of the pandemic in March, the Wilmington Teen Center has had to curtail nearly all youth activities. It now functions more like a community pantry.
Tens of thousands of people face confusion, contradiction and chaos amid the state’s uneven vaccine rollout.
COVID-19 deaths still stalking California at alarming levels even as cases continue to flatten
It is not yet known whether the new coronavirus variant is more contagious, but it is becoming increasingly prevalent in Northern California.
Schools can be used as vaccine centers under new guidelines, but they’ll have to apply for the role, and the bigger issue remains the shortage of vaccine doses.
Those eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine include grocery store and restaurant workers who live or work in Long Beach.
Orange County will open its second of five mass COVID-19 vaccination centers on Saturday. The goal: Inoculate all residents by July 4.
County officials say they have most of the resources — large vaccine centers and personnel to run them — but lack the doses they need.
More than 4,000 of Los Angeles County’s 14,000-plus COVID-19 deaths have been reported since New Year’s Day.
A group of Bay Area wineries and restaurants are seeking to overturn a state ban on in-person dining — and drinking — as a coronavirus-control measure.
The state is receiving about 300,000 to 500,000 COVID-19 doses each week, a pace that would take months for priority list residents to get vaccinated.
Despite signs that COVID-19 may be receding, a top Los Angeles County official warned the situation remains precarious.
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, the California court system is preparing for eviction cases to double
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The court denies a petition alleging that L.A. Unified was violating the law by not offering in-person instruction for pupils with the greatest need.
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The fallout was swift after Donald Trump pardoned Robert Zangrillo, who had faced a criminal trial set for this year.
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The College Board’s scrapping of SAT subject tests and essays signal another blow to the standardized testing industry.
Housing & Homelessness
When L.A. County nixed a plan to build a new jail, Supervisor Hilda Solis saw an opportunity to use the land for homeless housing. In under five months, the unused parking lot has been transformed into 232 units of permanent and interim housing at $200,000 per unit, a record for speed and cost.
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The new stimulus bill passed by Congress includes $25 billion in rental relief for struggling tenants, $2.6 billion of which is coming to California. Can I apply?
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Jon David Guerrero pleaded guilty to slayings that included hammering sleeping homeless men with railroad spikes.
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Councilman Kevin De León will introduce a range of motions Tuesday with the goal creating 25,000 new housing units for homeless people by 2025
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Massive job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will leave tens of thousands of low-wage workers without homes over the next three years, a report published Tuesday by a Los Angeles-based research group forecasts.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget includes $750 million for local governments to purchase motels, hotels and apartment buildings.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake gently rattles South Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.
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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported at 8:01 p.m. Saturday less than a mile from Prunedale, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported at 11:18 a.m. Thursday in Concord, Calif., according to the USGS.
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A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Sunday at 12:21 a.m. 11 miles from Brawley, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials are refusing to turn over documents to department watchdogs related to their investigation into Undersheriff Tim Murakami’s alleged use of a Japanese racial slur to refer to employees of color.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci has returned to the White House and stood by the president’s side as Biden signed a number of executive orders on the pandemic.
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Since the coronavirus pandemic began, families have started social pods for their children. Did you start a social pod? If so, we want to hear about it.
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Yosemite National Park will remain closed through the weekend after high winds that battered much of California knocked down two giant sequoias.
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A key committee of the Los Angeles City Council backed a proposal for a developer to erect two high-rise towers at the site of the former Times building in downtown L.A.
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Last month, the Santa Ana City Council approved a plan to demolish a Northgate Market and erect luxury apartments in its place. It was one of the first controversial decisions by the new council, which added three members and a new mayor in November.
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The Standard hotel in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip is set to close Friday. It said its lease price made the location unsustainable.
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Roberts offered more than just a curriculum to the predominantly low-income and Latino students in Orange County’s urban core.
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The channel is part of a $154-million, five-year U.S. Navy project designed to reconfigure Anaheim Bay.
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Southern Californians arrested in the assault on U.S. Capitol include a doctor, salon owner, and actor/model.
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After four years of Trump, the question is no longer how much damage the government can do. It’s whether the government is living up to its promises.
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Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, with Kamala Harris, the country’s barrier-shattering vice president, by his side.
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Kamala Harris has shattered many glass ceilings, but she has great company in Alpha Kappa Alpha and other Black Greek-letter sororities and fraternities.
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Grove, who once described herself as a “gun-carrying, tongue-talking, spirit-filled believer,” will be succeeded as Senate Republican leader by state Sen. Scott Wilk of Santa Clarita.
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The organizer of a rally against police brutality who was charged with attempted murder last year now faces additional felony charges after a months-long review of the case, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Residents being evacuated included those on Horizon Drive between Sunnyhill Drive and Hillside Drive
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Eagle Hospitality Trust’s Chapter 11 filing could be the start of a wave of bankruptcies for the industry. The company operates the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
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An attorney for “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson has pleaded not guilty on his behalf in an L.A. court to the rapes of three women in the early 2000s.
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Columnists
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Jeff Brain helped lead the 2002 San Fernando Valley secession movement. Now he’s built CloutHub, a refuge for Trump supporters alienated by Twitter.
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Salam International is in the business of death. For the last 12 months, body bags have made life hectic for the Laguna Hills supplier. COVID-19 has been “good for our business, but it’s not good for the community,” owner Abdul Salam said. “Record earnings, yes, but the emotional toll is more.”
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L.A. County inspectors have issued 157 citations to businesses and churches for violating COVID-19 protocols since Dec. 1, some multiple times.
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State lawmakers say they’ve been flooded with desperate calls from constituents who don’t understand why their jobless benefits have been cut off by EDD.
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The city’s handling of 520 Mateo, a tower being developed by Carmel Partners, is part of the bribery case against former Councilman Jose Huizar.
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Companies such as Facebook and Twitter have made it easy for conspiracy theorists and insurrectionists to incite violence, and subvert democracy.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes extending eviction protections and expediting $2.6 billion in federal rental assistance for low-income tenants.
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Empty chairs now adorn Little Saigon, the Orange County nail salon capital of the U.S., as pandemic restrictions left countless manicurists out of work.
