A Ventura County animal sanctuary has been ordered to pay more than $50,000 in penalties and other fees for housing exotic animals without permits.The sanctuary, Born to Be Free in [...]
Los Angeles County is giving consumers a way to get more bang for their buck this holiday season by offering extra cash with a new digital gift card to shop [...]
As travelers prepare to fly home on what is anticipated to be one of the busiest travel days in 15 years, a powerful winter storm in the Midwest and Great [...]
The Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funds to schools with race-based programs and a discrimination lawsuit prompted the Fresno Unified School District to restructure its academic support department for [...]
At a time when the federal government is dismantling civil rights protections in K-12 schools, California is expanding them — although some wonder how far the state will go to [...]
A month or so ago, with construction crews still plugging along, Ted Koerner lost sight of the finish line. He wasn’t sure when he’d be able to move back home [...]
A high-ranking employee at the Department of Water and Power made staffers run personal errands for her, including purchasing tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert, according to the Los Angeles [...]
Waymo must stop charging its autonomous fleet of electric cars overnight at two Santa Monica stations, the City Council decided last week as a way to resolve a months-long dispute [...]
Los Angeles police have obtained a court order forbidding the county medical examiner’s office from releasing all details of its investigation into the death of a teenage girl whose body [...]
High surf swept three people off the beach and into the ocean in Big Sur on Saturday, the second such incident at Garrapata State Park in a week.Two women and [...]
A 22-year-old woman was killed in a shooting in Northridge overnight, police said.The Los Angeles Police Department received a call at around 1:40 a.m. Saturday to Bryant Street and Tampa [...]
At the Walk of Fame ceremony honoring her late husband on Thursday in Hollywood, Chadwick Boseman’s widow shared the underpinnings of the actor’s creative success. Simone Ledward Boseman, who married [...]
A state judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva that alleged the county defamed him, violated his rights and unfairly flagged his [...]
Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia loves to show off his two corgis, displaying them on his social media accounts, his financial reports and his reelection campaign materials. Cardboard cutouts [...]
WASHINGTON — A federal court has blocked Texas from moving forward with a new congressional map hastily drawn in recent months to net Republicans up to five additional seats in the U.S. [...]
This weekend’s atmospheric river uprooted trees, caked roads in mud and sent toxic runoff flowing into the ocean, but nowhere got quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara, which experienced [...]
The father who was killed after trying to save his 5-year-old daughter from the surf near Big Sur on Friday has been identified as 39-year-old Yuji Hu of Canada, the [...]
Four people died after a panga boat capsized off the San Diego County coast early Saturday morning, authorities said.The boat was first spotted south of the Imperial Beach Pier around [...]
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the government is “partially blocking access to lawyers” for immigrant detainees held in a downtown Los Angeles processing center and ordered it to [...]
As Gov. Gavin Newsom flew around the country last year campaigning for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, his chief of staff Dana Williamson — known as one of [...]
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that allege she siphoned $225,000 out of a dormant state campaign account and wrote off a $1 [...]
WASHINGTON — President Trump and Republican lawmakers took a victory lap on Tuesday after securing bipartisan support to reopen the government, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history without ceding ground to [...]
For programs across California that rely on federal AmeriCorps funding to provide services such as mentoring and tutoring, it’s been a year of dramatic ups and downs.In April, California AmeriCorps [...]
If you ask Jodeah Wilson how his life got off track, he’ll say it’s all about money.He needs money for November rent. He also needs money to pay back the [...]
An off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer was killed in a car crash early Saturday morning, authorities said. He was the only person involved in the crash. The Los Angeles [...]
Los Angeles county officials are set to pull kratom and its synthetic extract, sometimes called 7-OH, from shelves immediately.Inspectors will be sent to retailers next week to begin red-tagging illegal [...]
Ever since the Trump immigration raids began in Los Angeles in June, local leaders and community activists have criticized agents for sometimes making it difficult to identify them as federal [...]
A former Torrance police officer who faced criminal charges for shooting a Black man fleeing a crime scene will avoid jail time and eventually see his case dismissed under a [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla announced Tuesday that he will not run for California governor next year, ending months of speculation about the possibility of the Democrat vying to succeed Gov. [...]
Dodgers fans filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles early Monday morning, to celebrate the Dodgers becoming baseball’s first back-to-back World Series champion in 25 years.The celebratory parade is commenced [...]
The 34-year-old son of Eugene “Big U” Henley, an accused Crips leader facing federal charges in a sprawling criminal case involving accusations of running a “Mafia-like” enterprise, died after being [...]
On Saturday morning, Genaro Alfonzo pulled up to the Kia Forum in Inglewood wearing his Dodgers hat and jersey, with a flag for his Boys in Blue flapping from a [...]
Will Cinerama Dome ever reopen? Maybe. Dome Center LLC, the company that owns the property along Sunset Boulevard upon which the iconic movie venue stands, filed an application for a [...]
An animal rights activist and UC Berkeley student was convicted Wednesday after releasing four chickens from a Sonoma County poultry facility — a caper she characterized as a rescue mission, [...]
The first Santa Anas of the season triggered a power shutoff for thousands of Southern Californians on Wednesday as utilities, firefighters and health officials were put on alert for impacts [...]
Members of a sophisticated burglary crew suspected of executing a series of smash-and-grab retail burglaries that netted more than $2.6 million in stolen goods this year have been arrested, the [...]
SACRAMENTO — Atty. General Rob Bonta said Monday that he anticipates the Trump administration, which last week announced plans to use federal election monitors in California, will use false reports of voting [...]
A staffing shortage at Los Angeles International Airport prompted a temporary ground stop affecting flights Sunday morning.The restriction began around 8:45 a.m. affecting departing flights for Oakland and was lifted [...]
Drivers in Los Angeles County have a powerful new privacy advocate after the L.A. County Board of Supervisors pushed to restrict how their license plates are scanned by law enforcement.The [...]
A planned increase in federal immigration enforcement in the Bay Area is now on pause throughout the region and in major East Bay cities, not just in San Francisco, Oakland [...]
Hunters will soon be allowed to kill mute swans as part of an effort to cull the “destructive, non-native” species statewide, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. [...]
Fullerton police said they discovered the bodies of four people inside a residence after a friend reported they had overdosed and were not breathing.Authorities said they were called to an [...]
Angels superstar Mike Trout testified Tuesday morning that he knew team employee Eric Kay had a drug problem but that pitcher Tyler Skaggs showed no signs of drug use. Trout, [...]
The pilot of a Boeing 737 headed for Los Angeles had a scary experience last week when the jet’s windscreen cracked mid-flight, forcing an early landing.United Airlines confirmed in a [...]
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) visited three Black churches in Los Angeles on Sunday morning to campaign for California’s redistricting effort, which could add five or six Democratic [...]
Building on the “No Kings” protests in June, organizations across the United States, including those in Southern California, are once again rallying and marching Saturday to protest against the Trump [...]
Video that appears to show federal immigration agents using their vehicle to ram the truck of an immigrant rights activist has sparked controversy and public outrage in the city of [...]
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live [...]
A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday to decide whether maneuvers used by the Trump administration to install Bill Essayli as acting United States attorney in Los Angeles are improper — [...]
The sister-in-law of former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Carrie Elizabeth Romney, was found dead near a Santa Clarita shopping mall on Friday.Her cause of death remains under investigation. Investigators are [...]