The Senate passed a sweeping public lands package Tuesday that would create 700,000 acres of new conservation and recreation areas, expand two of the most visited national parks in the California desert and designate nearly 80 miles of scenic rivers while providing new off-highway vehicle recreation areas in San Bernardino County for motorized trail riding….
Officers arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of homicide and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol during a six-vehicle collision in La Habra that left one woman dead on Sunday, Feb. 10. Police said a motorist travelling east on Lambert Road slammed into a vehicle headed north on Idaho Street shortly before 7:09…
Immigrant rights advocates have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to end humanitarian protections for more than 100,000 people from Honduras and Nepal. The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on behalf of six immigrants…
Los Angeles County supervisors narrowly approved a plan Tuesday to tear down the dungeon-like Men’s Central Jail downtown and build at least one mental health treatment facility in its place. The new plan modifies an existing $2.2-billion proposal that would have created the Consolidated Correctional…
By Elizabeth Marcellino LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to scrap plans for a women’s jail in Lancaster and approved a new vision for a downtown mental health treatment center, though many criminal justice advocates worried that it might only be a jail by another name. The board room…
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he plans to invite leaders of 45 noncompliant California cities and two counties to a “candid conversation” aimed at encouraging them to find “the political courage to build their fair share of housing.” The list includes 15 cities in Los Angeles County and six in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino…
In another blow to USC’s student health clinic, six male graduates filed a lawsuit this week accusing a men’s health doctor of sexual battery and harassment during appointments. The suit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that Dr. Dennis Kelly made demeaning remarks to defendants, all recent…
A federal appeals court has rejected arguments by the state of California and environmental groups who tried to block the reconstruction of sections of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Trump administration did not exceed its authority by waiving…
By JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT EL PASO, Texas — President Donald Trump charged ahead with his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, skimming over the details of lawmakers’ tentative deal that would give him far less than he’s been demanding and declaring he’s “setting the stage” to deliver on his signature…
By JONATHAN J. COOPER PHOENIX — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who rocketed to the national spotlight when his congresswoman wife Gabrielle Giffords was shot in a failed assassination attempt, announced Tuesday he’s running to finish John McCain’s last term in the U.S. Senate. Kelly, 54, is a top Democratic recruit to take on Republican Martha…
