LOS ANGELES — L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday that he plans to lead a coalition of mayors calling on Congress to pass the Ending Homelessness Act. The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, would direct more than $13 billion to support the work of cities on the front lines of this crisis, deliver…
Restoration work underway on 17 historic cottages on the north end of Crystal Cove State Park received $2.9 million in funding from the new state budget. Crystal Cove Conservancy, the nonprofit that has spearheaded the massive restoration project, worked with Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris to secure the funding for the remaining cottages from this year’s general…
Five years ago, at age 39, Elaine Wang went through a painful breakup with her longtime boyfriend. Compounding her anguish, Wang recalled, was the ticking of her “biological time clock.” “For as long as I can remember, I have wanted children,” Wang said recently. “Here I was, completely single and on the cusp of not…
The University of Utah will hold a memorial Monday evening for Mackenzie Lueck, of El Segundo, whose body was found last week. The kidnapping and killing of Lueck stunned the university and sparked an outpouring of grief and mourning. Salt Lake City police announced Friday that Ayoola Ajayi, 31,…
A man was killed Sunday evening in a shooting in La Puentethat injured two other people, authorities said. Police responded to the 400 block of Tonopah Avenue at 6:32 p.m. and found one man, who has not been identified, with a gunshot wound to the upper torso, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department…
Members of a new governmental panel aimed at getting people out of Orange County’s streets and parks and from under freeway overpasses, and get roofs over their heads, left their first meeting Thursday with a single goal — to find money for 2,700 housing units over the next six years. But for members of Orange…
Two of the five State Senate seats that touch Orange County are up for election in 2020, and while both are held by Republican incumbents Democrats see both as potential flip districts, as the party hopes to make the county match its statewide super majority. But Republicans are confident that a controversial challenger in one…
LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the L.A. County Federation of Labor plan to decide Monday whether to endorse a potential strike by grocery workers at Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions. Raising the threat of the first Southland grocery strike in nearly 16 years, the workers on Wednesday overwhelmingly authorized their union’s plan to call for…
California’s kindergarten vaccination rate dropped again in the most recent school year as more parents sought permission from doctors to not immunize their children, according to new state data. The troubling trend comes amid a national measles outbreak as well as intense debate over whether California…
Every summer in Los Angeles, the police department, fire agencies and politicians take great pains to warn the public about the dangers of illegal fireworks. Safety experts present at schools, where they show children slides of full-body burn victims and tell stories of firework noise scaring pet…
