California removes slur targeting Indigenous women from location names
Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term “squaw” from over 30 geographic features and place names on California lands.
A century after Owens Valley aqueduct protest, event marks tense time in L.A. water history
In 1924, Owens Valley residents seized the L.A. Aqueduct in a defiant protest. An event focuses on remembering the troubled chapter of L.A. water history.
A 150-million-year journey from the Jurassic to Exposition Park
She’s big, she’s green, and she’s L.A.’s newest icon. Meet Gnatalie the dinosaur.
Expansion of San Luis Reservoir set to boost California’s water-storing capacity
The federal government and California water agencies announced an agreement to raise a dam and expand San Luis Reservoir, increasing its water-storing capacity.
Man who met teen through ‘furry’ subculture convicted in her parents’ deaths
Frank Sato Felix and a friend plotted to take a 17-year-old girl from her Fullerton home, and killed her parents and a family friend.
Bell Gardens priest supported political candidates, apparently violating federal law: ‘I won’t stop’
Father Nabor Rios of the St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church told worshipers to vote for a candidate during a Mass in late October, a violation of a longstanding federal law that prohibits religious and nonprofits from campaigning for or against a candidate.
Plane crashes upside down in Sherman Oaks. Passengers exit unharmed
The pilot and passenger of the Cessna aircraft got out before firefighters arrived and declined to be taken to a hospital.
Editorial: L.A. County voters agreed to another tax to reduce homelessness. Let’s make sure it does
Los Angeles County voters’ approval of Measure A is expected to provide about $1 billion a year to support and house homeless people through a 0.5% sales tax.
Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater into clean drinking water
Los Angeles is set to build a facility in the San Fernando Valley that will transform wastewater into enough pure drinking water for about 250,000 people.
LAPD ‘SWAT mafia’ trial set to begin; elite unit’s leaders said to ‘glamorize’ killings
A former LAPD sergeant has sued the city of Los Angeles, alleging he faced retaliation after calling out senior members of the department’s SWAT unit over a culture of violence, secrecy and cover-ups.