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Groups walked the streets in an area of Echo Park to assess where homeless people could be barred from sleeping if the proposal passed.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed back against criticism of his handling of the new vaccine laws, which prompted protests at the state Capitol.
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Here are the fires larger than 500 acres burning in California, based on data collected by Cal Fire and InciWeb.
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Community group UproarLA provided the Southern San Fernando Valley Airplane Noise Task Force with its solution on how to address airplane noise in the region.
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Edward Rostohar, 62, of Studio City, admitted he gambled away much of the money and spent the rest on private jets and expensive cars and watches.
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Two people were arrested after a Sacramento woman in the vehicle told deputies she had been held against her will and sexually assaulted.
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The emu was found on California 99. After a brief chase, it was captured using dog snares. There was an odder animal capture: a gator in a cemetery.
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NASA has released several satellite images showing the Walker fire, which has been burning in the Plumas National Forest since Sept. 4.
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A magnitude-3.8 earthquake was reported at 11:11 a.m. Monday 27 miles from Coachella and 32 miles from Indio, Calif.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a crackdown on e-cigarettes and plans to launch a vaping awareness campaign amid U.S. lung illness outbreak.
Times Investigations
An internal investigation at UCLA uncovered key elements of William “Rick” Singer’s college admissions scheme in 2014.
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The L.A. Times finds the Trump administration appears to be violating U.S. law in implementing the Remain in Mexico policy, officials and lawyers warn.
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The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from BioWatch on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers, records show.
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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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California culture, news and politics
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A bill awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature could make it harder to fight the construction of new shelters and housing for homeless people in L.A.
The Trump administration’s trip to Los Angeles to explore ways to remove homeless street camps has left city officials confused — with reactions ranging from cautious optimism about new resources to fear about forced mass relocations to government-run facilities.
Rudolph W. Giuliani has spoken with President Trump about homelessness. L.A. is a good place to focus on the issue, he said: “If something works in Los Angeles, it will work anywhere else.”
The California Legislature has banned advertisements for apartments with “No Section 8" in them.
The California Legislature approved reinstating a program that pumped hundreds of millions of dollars a year into affordable housing and economic development.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign a statewide cap on annual rent increases of 5% plus inflation.
Los Angeles is pressing forward with a bitterly contested plan to put homeless housing on an Echo Park lot, defying the objections of a local nonprofit.
At least a dozen Trump administration officials are in Los Angeles to examine the homelessness crisis, a source of criticism from the president.
It really doesn’t work to be entirely sober while digesting news out of Trump’s White House.
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Climate & Environment
Newsom plans to veto bill that would have imposed strict endangered species protections
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The legislative clock runs out on two California bills seeking to phase out single-use plastic containers and ease the state’s recycling crisis.
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Scientists and environmentalists agree on the need to protect tropical rainforests, but they couldn’t disagree more about California’s plan for saving them.
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The Interior Department has released its final plans to allow a pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to be leased for oil drilling.
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Actress turned wellness guru Rainbeau Mars traded her lawn in Venice for an edible landscape of herbs, fruit trees, vegetables and, yup, even nutritious “weeds” like dandelions and stinging nettles.
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The Trump administration plans to revoke an Obama-era regulation that provided federal protection to many U.S. wetlands and streams.
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California college students say the biggest obstacle to success are costs and juggling work with school, surveys says.
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David Kassan combines live interviews with painting to create vivid testimony on view in a new USC Fisher Museum and Shoah Foundation exhibition.
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District officials explain why it took 14 days to acknowledge that a Hollenbeck Middle School student was hit in the jaw by a bullet
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was registered at 2:48 a.m. Saturday nine miles offshore from Huntington Beach.
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A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 11:50 p.m. Pacific time 11 miles from Soledad, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude-4.0 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon at 1:21 p.m. in Wildomar, Calif., according to the U.S.
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A magnitude-3.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday at 8:05 a.m.
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The baby’s body was found next to an unconscious 29-year-old man, and drug paraphernalia was inside the house.
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Police found a car perched on a retaining wall at the college and a man with gunshot wounds lying on the ground beside the vehicle.
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San Diego Lincoln students and cheer squad were said to be heckled by fans using racial slurs.
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The biggest immediate problem for California’s high-speed rail project is land acquisitions. Mismanagement of them is contributing to construction delays, cost increases, litigation and the launch of a federal audit.
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A new report about the death of Noah Cuatro has absolved the Department of Children and Family Services of responsibility in the case.
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A lawsuit pits a big pistachio grower against the even bigger Wonderful Pistachios company
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In 1969, public officials were trying to close down the adult entertainment establishments in Lennox, an unincorporated neighborhood in Los Angeles County.
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The biggest immediate problem for California’s high-speed rail project is land acquisitions. Mismanagement of them is contributing to construction delays, cost increases, litigation and the launch of a federal audit.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a crackdown on e-cigarettes and plans to launch a vaping awareness campaign amid U.S. lung illness outbreak.
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Groups walked the streets in an area of Echo Park to assess where homeless people could be barred from sleeping if the proposal passed.
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A new report about the death of Noah Cuatro has absolved the Department of Children and Family Services of responsibility in the case.
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On Friday, state Senate leader Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) showed us how a healthy, productive legislature works — one that independently pushes its own ideas about public policy and leaves it to the governor to decide whether to sign or veto a bill. Atkins rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request to shelve her landmark anti-Trump environmental protection measure, SB 1.
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Laws & Policy
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There was a sense among watchers of the California Legislature that the final hours of the 2019 session would be a bit of a letdown.
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California lawmakers tackled policing, environmental and labor rules in 2019. Will those fights last into 2020?
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A person protesting a vaccine bill to place new restrictions on medical exemptions for children prompted an evacuation at the California Senate after throwing red liquid on lawmakers from the balcony of the chamber.
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California lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill to limit interest rates on loans between $2,500 to $9,999 at 36%.
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After 27 years as chief clerk of the California Assembly, Dotson Wilson will retire at the end of September.
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