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The magnitude 4.0 earthquake was reported Tuesday at 2:48 a.m. 37 miles from Fortuna, Calif.
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Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing millions of dollars in restaurant aid and new programs to help street vendors and other struggling chefs and restaurateurs to avert fees, red tape and other logistical hurdles in the wake of COVID-19.
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Critics accused celebrity doctor David ‘Dr. Drew’ Pinsky of promoting policies that criminalize homelessness.
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Chief Michel Moore’s promises that the LAPD is prepared to facilitate demonstrations related to Derek Chauvin’s trial come at a high-stakes moment for the department.
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Paul Flores must remain in a San Luis Obispo County jail as he awaits trial on charges he killed college student Kristin Smart while trying to rape her in 1996.
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The proposals reflect the shift that has taken place at City Hall since last year, when Angelenos filled the streets to protest police brutality and racial inequality.
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The county saw a $735-million drop in sales tax revenue due to the pandemic-related economic slowdown, but layoffs and furloughs are not planned and the overall budget to large departments will remain largely unchanged.
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With testing a requirement as schools reopen for in-person classes, 72 staff members and 105 students were found to have the virus.
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Police arrested the man on suspicion of burglary.
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Mayor Eric Garcetti’s $24-million Basic Income Guaranteed program, which will be included in his city budget to be released Tuesday, would provide $1,000 a month to 2,000 Los Angeles families for a year.
State Laws, Politics & Policy
Senate Bill 93 requires employers in hospitality and business services industries to offer new positions for similar work to employees laid off during the pandemic.
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The former L.A. mayor said, “68 is the new 38.” Better would be a candidate for governor who is actually 38.
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The former L.A. mayor has criticized the recall effort targeting his 2018 gubernatorial foe, Gavin Newsom. But he hasn’t publicly ruled out a run.
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A key legislative committee approves bills to help overhaul the EDD’s operations as the agency apologizes for another error that interrupted payments.
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California’s congressional Democrats have the chance to demand restoration of state and local tax breaks. Will they take it?
California: Most read
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Critics accused celebrity doctor David ‘Dr. Drew’ Pinsky of promoting policies that criminalize homelessness.
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Liliana Carrillo’s unraveling over the last year alarmed people in her life.
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Accepted students are in the power position this month as competitive colleges try to impress them to say yes in a year of record applications to the University of California and other elite schools.
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Chief Michel Moore’s promises that the LAPD is prepared to facilitate demonstrations related to Derek Chauvin’s trial come at a high-stakes moment for the department.
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The county’s latest allocation, approximately 362,000 doses, is up nearly 39,000 from last week, according to the Department of Public Health.
COVID-19 has again prompted San Francisco to cancel its marijuana festival in Golden Gate Park.
Still, California ranks 32nd among all states in the proportion of its population that’s considered fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
An annual survey about quality of life revealed stark differences by socioeconomic status, telling a “tale of two L.A.s.”
Several businesses in Southern California have published books about themselves to tap another revenue source after a disastrous year.
California officials say they do not plan to require vaccine verification, but new rules incentivize private venues to seek proof of tests or inoculation.
Lawmakers in California and other states are rethinking how they set and enforce speed limits, giving local authorities more power to slow drivers.
In-person schooling looks very different from neighborhood to neighborhood, especially at the elementary school level.
The Los Angeles County Department of Health reported 527 new coronavirus cases and 29 related deaths on Saturday.
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Disneyland and other theme parks are reopening with pandemic safety protocols, many of which lean heavily on tech.
Vaccine hunters are the unofficial heroes of the coronavirus age. Wielding smartphones and tablets, PCs and Macs, these internet wranglers blast through barriers that stand between loved ones’ arms and COVID vaccines.
Some 40,000 California workers quit the labor force in March, pulling the unemployment rate down slightly to 8.3% but feeding stubborn joblessness.
Researchers are developing vaccines that could be taken as a capsule, a dissolvable tablet or a nasal spray. But the barriers to success are high.
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One photo shows someone wearing a T-shirt that says “Catholics vs. Convicts III,” another shows Cathedral players making a gang sign
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The late state Sen. William Craven of Oceanside promoted the school’s founding, but he upset many with his remarks in the 1990s about immigrants.
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This year’s astounding number of rejections for UC applicants reveals several big problems, including the woeful unpopularity of the humanities.
Housing & Homelessness
The mayor’s proposed budget, set for release Tuesday, comes at a moment of heightened frustration over the city’s handling of homelessness.
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L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger recommended Dr. David Drew Pinsky, more commonly known as “Dr. Drew,” to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority commission, prompting outcry among some homeless service advocates.
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Is a tiny house really a glorified toolshed? Are the unhoused serving as guinea pigs for architect’s design experiments? Our columnist visits L.A.'s new wave of shelter solutions.
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The philanthropic company of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan is spending millions to help South Los Angeles landlords.
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L.A. could soon usher in a new law that would ban landlords from harassing renters. Landlords oppose the measure, citing several objections.
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In March, slightly more than half of homes sold for over the asking price across Los Angeles. In some spots, the share was even bigger.
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The magnitude-4.0 California earthquake occurred at 11:50 a.m. Monday eight miles from Healdsburg.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 9:30 p.m. Thursday 18 miles from Fortuna, Calif.
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A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported at 2:45 a.m. Sunday seven miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Saturday at 7:13 a.m. Pacific time three miles from Santa Rosa, Calif., according to the USGS.
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For children in kindergarten and transitional kindergarten, school itself is terra incognita. April is the first time many have been in a classroom.
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Evacuations were lifted in the Gavilan Hills area Monday evening as firefighters stopped forward progress of the Chico fire.
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Liliana Carrillo is charged with murdering her three young children in Reseda before absconding to the San Joaquin Valley.
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Portions of the forest have been closed since the Bobcat fire burned through more than 180 square miles in September.
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Police say the suspect also attacked an elderly Korean couple in an Orange park. Authorities are calling both of the incidents hate crimes.
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The boat was sinking quickly and was almost submerged by the time rescue crews arrived.
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After being shut down by the pandemic in 2020, the two-month event will resume this summer with the Pageant of the Masters and the Fine Art Show.
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Warm weather will continue Monday in the L.A. region, with some areas climbing into the 90s, but cooler temperatures are expected, with a chance of light rain midweek.
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The child and a woman were hospitalized after the shooting, which comes on the heels of a violent week, with several homicides in the L.A. area.
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Boba, primarily created and shipped out of Taiwan, will be in short supply this spring and summer, with some mom-and-pop shops predicting they’ll run out.
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This is the week political watchers expect enough validated voter signatures to force a recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Every weekday, our podcast ‘The Times’ will take listeners beyond the headlines, with our West Coast outlook on the world.
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California has entered another drought, but did the old one end? Plus, $1 billion to combat homelessness in L.A.'s budget and controversy over Dr. Drew.
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With supreme confidence and politically incorrect bluster, businessman Dan Pena made a fortune. He prods and pokes his students to do the same.
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Vandals left a pig’s head at the former home of an ex-Santa Rosa police officer who testified in Derek Chauvin’s defense, authorities say.
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A woman died in a skydiving accident Saturday near Lodi, Calif., after her parachute became tangled and failed to deploy as she fell to the ground, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.
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Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives are investigating two homicides that occurred Sunday afternoon — one in Compton and the other in Lennox.
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To date, officials have confirmed 1,228,997 positive cases of COVID-19 across the county and a total of 23,623 deaths.
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Columnists
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The ArcLight Hollywood with its Cinerama Dome means a great deal to Hollywood the neighborhood. Here’s hoping for a rescue that saves it but doesn’t try to reinvent something that works.
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Officials moved the lone remaining occupant of the category, Merced County, into the less-stringent red tier after reexamining the region’s data.
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The lone remaining denizen of the purple tier is Merced County after Inyo County advanced to the less-restrictive red tier Tuesday.
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California reopens enrollment for its state health insurance exchange as new federal assistance could lower monthly premiums by $1,000 or more.
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Your questions about vaccination-related civil liberties, privacy and discrimination are answered.
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June 15 is the targeted reopening date California officials unveiled, as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to fall and more people are getting vaccinated.
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Final vote of new regulations governing Airbnb-style rentals clears the way for imposing a yearly cap on whole-home rentals that will not go into effect until July 2022
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After more than a year of coronavirus-related closures, California has a reopening date: June 15. Here are the basics.
