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Los Angeles City Council District 6 candidate Marco Santana

L.A. County Democratic Party leader says Valley candidate’s flier is ‘misleading’

A City Council campaign door hanger for Marco Santana is ‘completely misleading,’ county Democratic Party head says. Santana’s camp defends the flier.

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in National City, Calif., on March 19, 2023. Newsom has asked lawmakers to pass a bill that would empower regulators to penalize oil companies for price gouging at the pump. The bill has its first vote in the state Senate on Thursday, March 23, 2023. (Adriana Heldiz/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

California Senate advances bill to punish oil companies for gasoline ‘price gouging’

The Maple Ridge mobile home park on the 7800 block of Slater Avenue in Huntington Beach on Monday, July 18, 2022.

‘Gimme Shelter’: Who’s watching California’s mobile home parks

Los Angeles, CA - September 28: An aerial view of urban sprawl as seen from the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Opinion: California housing and the environment are often at odds. They don’t have to be

LOS ANGELES-CA-MARCH 6, 2023: Los Angeles City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez is photographed at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles on Monday, March 6, 2023. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

The fence around Echo Park Lake is coming down. The debate over it rages on

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Los Angeles, CA - March 21: A three-day strike calling for better wages and working conditions for some of Los Angeles public schools' lowest-paid employees - bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants, and others - kicked off Tuesday, with picketers in front of the LAUSD headquarters on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Los Angeles, CA. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

‘Fed up’ California workers across industries demand more amid rising cost of living

Universal City, CA - June 15: As part of California's full reopening, marking the end of pandemic-era restrictions like masks, social distancing and most capacity restrictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom enters alongside Universal Studios characers, including Shrek and Troll characters, before taking part in a press conference at Universal Studios, in Universal City, CA, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Governor Newsom drew 10 winners to receive $1.5 million each, for a total of $15 million, as part of the final cash prize drawing in the state's $116.5 million Vax for the Win program - the largest vaccine incentive program in the nation. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Newsom wants to extend Hollywood tax credits — and give out millions in refunds

A family is silhouetted against the city lights while walking along a trail at the Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. The world's population is projected to hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, Nov. 15, according to a United Nations projection. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Column: California’s population is on the decline, and high-income earners have joined the exodus

Loma Linda, CA - December 28: Merlina Segeda Rendon, 12, in the emergency department at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, in Loma Linda, CA. Merlina Segeda Rendon has leukemia, had tested positive for the coronavirus on a rapid test at home. The nurse is checking her oxygen levels. She told Merlina it was good - news that the girl relayed to her mother in Spanish - and asked her to sit up and take a deep breath so Perez could listen to her lungs. This was the second time that Merlina had gotten COVID, her mother M. del Carmen said. She worried aloud about how leukemia might complicate efforts to treat her daughter for the virus. (Editors note: NO RESALES) (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

After ambitious single-payer healthcare plans sputter, a new California bill tries an incremental approach

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CARPINTERIA, CA - MAY 06, 2019 -Marijuana growing in a steel-frame greenhouse at Brand Farms in Carpinteria at the southern end of Santa Barbara County that has allowed some of the biggest marijuana grows in the world. Lobbied by the marijuana industry, Santa Barbara County officials opened the door to big cannabis interest in the last two years like no other county in the nation, setting off a largely unregulated rush of planting in a region not previously known for the crop. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

State launches probe of cannabis licensing to ‘clean house’ of corruption

State officials will audit corruption in cannabis licensing after a Times investigation uncovered allegations of bribery, conflicts of interest and other misdeeds.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 22: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) workers and supporters dance at a rally outside a LAUSD district office on the second day of a strike over a new contract on March 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Tens of thousands of public school employees including bus drivers, food service workers, custodians and teacher aides are taking part in a three-day strike, calling for fair wages and benefits, which has left 420,000 students out of school in the second largest school system in the U.S. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

LAUSD schools to open Friday as strike ends and labor talks continue with Bass mediation

People hold signs during a joint board meeting of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., to establish new guidelines limiting gender-affirming care in Florida. Members have signaled support for prohibiting puberty blockers, cross-hormonal treatment and gender-affirming surgery as methods to treat gender dysphoria in patients under the age of 18. Critics say the rules, urged by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, would have potentially life-or-death consequences for transgender youth. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Lake Buena Vista Sentinel via AP)

Editorial: Bills intended to shame and scare transgender students are despicable

COVELO, CA - July 30, 2022 - Sabrina, a cannabis worker, points out a ledger page tallying the money owed to workers on a legal cannabis farm owned by Mike Womack on Saturday, July 30, 2022 in Covelo, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Labor unions objections delay California investigation into wage theft system

LOS ANGELES-CA-MARCH 20, 2023: Max Arias, head of SEIU Local 99, is photographed at the union's offices in Los Angeles on March 20, 2023. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Column: He helped LAUSD’s most ‘invisible’ workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn’t done

The Times podcast: The flooding in Pajaro, Calif. — and how it all could have been avoided

When it comes to earthquakes, Republicans and Democrats agree on L.A. retrofitting, poll finds

Amid threatened state intervention, L.A. County OKs steps to reform probation department

Downtown L.A.’s Grand Park to be renamed in honor of longtime Supervisor Gloria Molina

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People sign petitions as conservative activists gather signatures in a recall effort against California Governor Gavin Newsom near Pasadena City Hall, in Pasadena, California on February 28, 2021. (Photo by DAVID MCNEW / AFP) (Photo by DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images)

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Unions and environmentalists push for California referendum reform

A bill to reform state referendum law could become one of the most high-profile political fights between business and labor in California this year.

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