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Southern California and the Central Valley are by far the state’s biggest contributors of total COVID-19 deaths in the last week.
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The Protecting America’s Wilderness Act suffered a setback. But activists are determined to get the bill across the finish line.
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California and L.A. County reversed their closure of outdoor playgrounds on Wednesday, to the relief of many parents and caregivers across the state.
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Rather than fight over the one Senate seat being vacated by Kamala Harris, California could have two seats if Sen. Dianne Feinstein would only retire.
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While the number of high school graduates remained stable in 2020, fewer students went on to college than before, with graduates of high-poverty, low-income and urban schools the most severely affected.
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The first COVID-19 vaccine could arrive in California this week. Here is how officials plan to handle the first wave of vaccinations.
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Column: In Becerra as first Latino health secretary, Biden gets a team player who’s tough in a fight
Column: In Becerra as first Latino health secretary, Biden gets a team player who’s tough in a fight
Xavier Becerra is Washington-ready, not a naïve outsider who needs D.C. training wheels, columnist George Skelton writes.
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The Long Beach Fire Department has extracted a woman who was trapped in a truck pinned underneath a container loader at the Port of Long Beach.
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White and higher-income Californians are most likely to believe today’s children will be worse off than their parents, a new statewide survey finds.
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Nine companies affiliated with Gov. Gavin Newsom took the loans to help small businesses survive the pandemic. Newsom put his holdings into a blind trust and so would not have participated in the decision to obtain the loans.
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The state Cannabis Advisory Committee recommended changes that included lifting the $5,000 limit on the amount of pot that can be carried by delivery vans.
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Terrance Stewart’s family was unable to find housing in Riverside due to his cocaine dealing conviction even after he earned a master’s degree from UC Riverside.
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Over the past four years, the dialysis industry has spent $233 million to influence California politics, both to stop union-backed ballot measures and curry favor with key lawmakers.
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A Times investigation found care failures at hospices, including mismanaged medications, neglected wounds and missed appointments.
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Nowhere has the hospice industry’s growth been more explosive, and its harmful side effects more evident, than in Los Angeles County.
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The first COVID-19 vaccine could arrive in California this week. Here is how officials plan to handle the first wave of vaccinations.
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Southern California and the Central Valley are by far the state’s biggest contributors of total COVID-19 deaths in the last week.
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Father decapitated two children, forced other kids to view bodies over five days, prosecutors allege
Father decapitated two children, forced other kids to view bodies over five days, prosecutors allege
Authorities allege a Lancaster father decapitated his 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, then kept the bodies in the house for five days while his two younger sons were held in their rooms without food.
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More Californians died of COVID-19 on Tuesday than any other day on record, the latest milestone reached amid an accelerating pandemic.
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The city of Manhattan Beach has repurposed newly closed outdoor dining areas as public seating spaces where people can sit and potentially dine.
San Francisco health officials urge residents to stay home, calling it “probably the most important message” since the pandemic began.
Experts have yet to unlock the connection between the coronavirus and MIS-C, but doctors say the spike in COVID infections is tied to the uptick in MIS-C cases.
The nation’s largest four-year university system, among the first to announce an all-virtual instruction plan this fall, says it’s resuming primarily in-person classes and activities at CSU campuses in fall 2021.
Facing backlash from parents, the state of California reverses its COVID-19 rules and says playgrounds can remain open.
Sheriffs in Southern California are turning out to be Keystone corona-Kops during the COVID-19 pandemic, failing to bring law and order to their counties.
As a COVID-19 vaccine begins to become available, a new challenge emerges: convincing people to get it.
Hospital ICUs full in Silicon Valley, Central Valley as state braces for more
After “a gloomy COVID winter,” widespread vaccination will bring years of robust growth to California’s economy, the UCLA Anderson forecast says.
The L.A. City Council also agreed to borrow $150 million and drain much of the city’s reserves in an attempt to erase a projected $675-million deficit.
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A judge has ruled that once the L.A. County ban expires Dec. 16, public health officials must conduct a risk-benefit analysis to extend any closures.
California on Tuesday shattered single-day records of coronavirus cases and deaths with the state’s worst tallies by far of the entire pandemic.
Latino residents were nearly three times as likely, and Black residents nearly twice as likely, to be hospitalized with COVID-19 as white residents.
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A rise in COVID-19 cases prompts L.A. school officials to reverse course on reopening. For the rest of the semester, all students will learn from home.
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Professors say the change was need to help prevent spread of COVID-19
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A letter from the CSU chancellor and chancellor-select to campus presidents said “the rapidly deteriorating conditions” around COVID-19 necessitate a reassessment of end-of-term plans, as well as when and how to begin the spring semester.
Housing & Homelessness
The management of an extended-stay Studio 6 motel in Commerce locked out formerly homeless residents even as L.A. County was buying the property to house homeless people.
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is asking the federal government for permission to skip the homeless count scheduled for January 2021.
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The firm, which operates as Mr. Cooper, failed to provide basic mortgage servicing operations over four years, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom promised “giant leaps forward” on climate. But so far state officials haven’t embraced a push to require all-electric buildings.
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Without help, a “perfect superstorm” of hardship is coming for Californians who are on the verge of losing their housing or who are already homeless.
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The Promenade 2035 project will replace a shuttered shopping mall in Warner Center with a new “downtown district” featuring a supermarket, public plazas, high-density housing and a 10,000-seat sports and entertainment venue.
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A magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Sunday at 7:17 a.m. 12 miles from Ramona, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake was reported Sunday at 7:03 a.m. eight miles from Ukiah, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Saturday at 5:48 a.m. Pacific time two miles from San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 2:45 a.m. Friday 11 miles from Clearlake, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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L.A. could steer millions of dollars cut from the LAPD’s budget into nuts-and-bolts city services. One critic called it “glorified pork-barrel spending.”
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A stay-at-home order is issued for the Sacramento region under new state COVID-19 guidelines as the availability of ICU beds reaches a critical low.
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Deon Jones hasn’t protested since he was shot in the face by a police projectile in May. He’s suing L.A. in an effort to ban such weapons at protests.
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Young America’s Foundation announced Monday that it would provide students in the Burbank Unified School District free copies of five books recently removed from the curriculum.
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Alice Stebbins says she was unfairly let go. The Public Utilities Commission says she violated hiring practices.
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Santa Ana winds and dry heat that plagued much of the region for more than a week fueled several wildfires across multiple counties.
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‘Tis the season to lend a hand. Don’t you have a neighborhood joint or two that needs your support?
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California expects to receive a little more than 2 million doses of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna by the end of December.
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Losing a loved one to COVID-19 can feel isolating. But survivors find solace in online communities and support groups.
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Choosing a reputable hospice can be a challenging task at an emotional time for families.
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San Francisco supervisors rejected a cigarette smoking ban in the city’s apartments a week after approving the proposal.
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The district attorney’s office has dropped charges against a protestor accused of attempting to wreck a train at the scene of a demonstration against the Sheriff’s Department. The charges had been denounced as trumped-up and retaliatory.
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At least three counties in the San Joaquin Valley were among the first in the state to run out of ICU beds.
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The estimate is smaller than the one made in November by the independent Legislative Analyst’s Office, which put the size of the unexpected cash surplus at $26 billion.
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David Tristan, currently deputy executive director of L.A.'s ethics commission, was appointed to a 10-year term heading the independent city department. He was selected by Mayor Garcetti’s appointees on the commission.
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Former U.S. Rep Katie Hill, who resigned from Congress last year after allegations of an improper relationship with a staff member, accused her ex-husband of domestic violence and animal abuse in an application for a restraining order filed Tuesday.
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The Sheriff’s Department knew about the event hours in advance, according to records and interviews.
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The cubs arrived at their new home at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium just in time for the holidays.
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The bank, which has contracted with the state Employment Development Department to issue debit cards containing unemployment benefits, issued the warning in a letter to California legislators.
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Surfrider teams with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to conduct their own tests of San Onofre’s radioactive wastewater
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Approaching Santa Ana winds may lead to pre-emptive power shutoffs into the weekend
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The new total is nearly three times the $140 million in claim payments estimated last week by a group of California DAs and a federal prosecutor.
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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti didn’t order the recent county ban on outdoor dining, but he’s still facing pressure from restaurant owners who are frustrated with his messaging.
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As coronavirus cases surge during the busy holiday shopping season, uncertainty and unease have set in on Main Streets.
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From Long Beach to Chinatown, restaurant workers and customers worry yet hope for the best on the day before the coronavirus shutdown — again.
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Chefs and restaurateurs react to another shutdown of in-person dining amid L.A. County’s coronavirus surge. “We’re holding on for dear life,” one chef said. “There’s no aid in sight, nothing at all.”
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