A dozen hilltop homes in one of the most affluent areas of coastal Los Angeles County were collapsing into a canyon on Monday after a landslide over the weekend forced the evacuation of a neighborhood in the community of Rolling Hills Estates. Local officials said that about 16 people were evacuated late Saturday after fire…
Why It Matters Workers across Southern California in a range of industries have threatened to strike or walked off the job in recent months, displaying unusual levels of solidarity with other unions as they push for higher pay and better working conditions. Dockworkers disrupted operations for weeks at the colossal ports of Los Angeles and…
It’s been five months since he died, but Los Angeles residents still can’t seem to shake their obsession with the mountain lion known as P-22. Fans wear pins and T-shirts that feature his wide-eyed stare. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a composition in September — at the Hollywood Bowl — that it commissioned…
LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of Los Angeles school employees will begin a three-day strike starting on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of campuses to close and canceling classes for 422,000 students. The union that represents 30,000 support workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking a 30 percent pay increase, saying that many…
At first glance, Rosecrans is not awe-inspiring. Rosecrans Avenue is just over 27 miles long, running east from the beach through South Los Angeles to the Orange County town of Fullerton. As one of the city’s major avenues, it’s among the few manufactured things here big enough to span the region’s disparate parts. I’ll take…
LOS ANGELES — As steady snowfall continued to present hazards in the mountains of Southern California on Saturday, residents at lower elevations dealt with the fallout from a more familiar threat: flooding. Intense rains and powerful winds that pounded Los Angeles and surrounding counties on Friday night and early Saturday produced significant flooding in urban…
A prolonged winter storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Upper Midwest was continuing its assault on the region on Thursday, as portions of Southern California prepare for blizzard conditions, forecasters said. More than 800,000 customers were without power early Thursday across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota, according to…
Five people were injured on Friday night after an American Airlines plane struck a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport in California, officials said, in what was the latest in a string of unusual incidents at major airports in the past four weeks. The plane, an Airbus A321, had no passengers and was being…
Yet another council vacancy will be filled with a new leader early next year, when a special election is held to fill the office of the former council president, Nury Martinez, who resigned in the aftermath of the audio scandal. On the recording, Ms. Martinez, who is Mexican American, made disparaging and racist remarks about…
“These are general statements, OK? But women are more collaborative. Women are not as transactional. And I think women focus on different issues,” she said. “I think women tend to lead differently.” For much of the mayoral campaign, Ms. Bass was the front-runner, with polls showing her to be the best known candidate by far…