Los Angeles teachers braved cold, drizzly weather Monday morning as they walked off the job in their first strike in 30 years to demand smaller class sizes, more support staff at schools and better pay. Schools will be open but it’s unknown how many students will head to classes in the nation’s…
Los Angeles Unified School District teachers are on strike for the first time in 30 years. Here are 5 things you need to know: 1 | Schools will be open. Kind of L.A. Unified has said that all schools will be open during the strike, and that students will receive instruction. But staffing will…
After last-minute negotiations to avert a strike failed, 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles union are walking out Monday in the first strike in the Los Angeles Unified School District since 1989. Follow our reporters and photographers as they cover the teachers picketing and the impact on students and schools.
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing potentially colossal liabilities over deadly California wildfires, PG&E will file for bankruptcy protection. The announcement Monday follows the resignation of the power company’s chief executive a day earlier. PG&E said Monday that it’s given the required 15-day advance notice that it plans to file for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection. The company…
LOS ANGELES — A Pacific storm is hitting Southern California Monday morning, generating rain and snow, creating treacherous conditions in the San Gabriel Mountains and raising fears of mudslides and debris flows over areas stripped bare by the Woolsey fire in LA and Ventura counties and the Holy fire in Riverside and Orange counties, forecasters…
Bagpipes played “Amazing Grace” as mourners gathered Sunday, Jan. 13, in a cold, muddy lot in Seal Beach to remember a Long Beach church leader and avid bicyclist who friends said died in a traffic collision on Friday. The hastily arranged memorial drew at least 150 people who commemorated the life of Paul Smith, 64,…
The border wall is at the center of the partial federal government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history. President Trump is insisting on billions of dollars to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border before he reopens the government. How has the current wall worked to secure the border? How many people has it…
A voluntary evacuation warning and a flash flood watch for the Inland Holy fire burn area was issued Sunday as Southern California braced for more rain, snow, strong winds and high surf throughout the week. The rain is expected Monday, with the warnings issued ahead of it. The National Weather Service’s flash flood watch will be…
The grandfather of a 13-year-old northwestern Wisconsin girl who authorities say escaped a man who killed her parents and held her captive for three months said Sunday she’s in “exceptionally good spirits.” Jayme Closs on Thursday fled the cabin near the small town of Gordon where she said she had been imprisoned. She approached a…
K9 deputy Arco died suddenly on Saturday night, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced on Facebook. Trained in patrol, narcotics and suspect and evidence searches, Arco, 4 years old, served the sheriff’s department for the past three years, said Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie Braun. He was involved in some major busts. “He worked in all areas…
