Melissa Gomez is an enterprise reporter on the State Team who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2018. She reports on a range of news and issues, with a special focus on the Central Valley. She previously covered education and the 2020 presidential campaign at The Times. A native Floridian, she graduated from the University of Florida.
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In recent years, more than a half-dozen cities in the region have established moratoriums as they consider the environmental impacts and the health of residents.
Hundreds gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Friday to protest immigration raids nationwide, marching to a federal detention facility.
Luis Beltrán Yáñez-Cruz, de 68 años, falleció el 6 de enero a la 1:18 a. m. en el John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital de Indio, tras haber permanecido recluido en el Centro de Detención Regional Imperial.
Luis Beltrán Yanez-Cruz, 68, died on Jan. 6 at 1:18 a.m. at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio after being held at the Imperial Regional Detention Facility.
The shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by a federal agent has sparked protests and vigils across the country, including in Los Angeles.
State lawmakers are blasting the mental health diversion granted to Kern politician Zack Scrivner, charged with child abuse. One calls it an “Epstein loophole.”
A year after two of the most destructive wildfires in California history erupted, survivors commemorated the day in Altadena and Pacific Palisades with anger and remembrance.
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said it was investigating, citing a recent shark attack and a missing swimmer, Erica Fox, 55, who disappeared on Dec. 21 near Lover’s Point in Pacific Grove.
In Oxnard, families remain separated and shops are hurting because of deportations and fear of further immigration raids after two in July at Glass House Farms.