After a year and a half of negotiations, Disneyland Resort hotel workers appear to have struck a deal with their employer, which would raise wages nearly $2 an hour and in same cases more. Unite Here Local 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with Disney late Monday that would cover about 2,700 of its 3,000…
A third Marine recruit has filed a lawsuit against a food provider claiming its negligent food handling caused him to become sick last year, leading to permanent kidney and brain damage and cutting short his Marine Corps career. In the lawsuit filed against Sodexo Inc., Tristan Abbott, 19, said exposure to undercooked beef in 2017 at…
When students enter school in California, they learn at a pace on par with — if not better than — those in other states. The problem is that they arrive far behind their national peers, and they never catch up. This conclusion, from a sweeping research project aimed at charting future education…
It was a sweltering weekday morning, and the vibe inside the Rev. Rosalynn Brookins’ Los Angeles home was festive. “Girl! You look great!” “Are you a Delta?” “Hello, room of God!” Ten women, all professionally accomplished, most ordained pastors, had gathered in Brookins’ living room to talk about…
In the Nov. 18, 1955, edition, the Los Angeles Times began a photography series titled “Know Your City.”
Marching down a trail deep in the woods east of San Juan Capistrano, Jason Andes pauses and squints at the ridgeline 50 feet to the south. The promontory would provide a mountain lion with an ideal lookout over the landscape of sycamore, coastal live oak and cactus. Jason Andes of Fountain Valley, talks about the…
Mountain lions may be “perfect killing machines” — as described by wildlife biologist and author Jim Williams — but they usually don’t have much interest in taking down people. “Statistically speaking, a person is one thousand times more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a mountain lion,” according to the California Department…
Are there mountain lions wandering around your neighborhood or living near your favorite hiking trail? Can you tell their tracks apart from dog paw prints, or bobcat tracks? These cats prefer to stay out of sight – but do you know what to do if you encounter one while hiking in cougar territory? We’ve got…
LOS ANGELES — UC Irvine has admitted it negligently killed six research animals, and a watchdog group that monitors U.S. research facilities said Tuesday it wants the school to be fined for its actions. The school admitted the animal deaths of four rabbits, a sheep and a pig in correspondence to a federal government funding…
LOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday decriminalizing sidewalk vending in the state and requiring cities that want to regulate the industry to first create a permit process. Senate Bill 946 was authored by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, who said part of his motivation was because many sidewalk vendors are immigrants…
