Los Angeles will lift restrictions and fines on street vendors
The city of Los Angeles has settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of street vendors by agreeing to repeal bans on vending near schools and...
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L.A. to open five cooling centers
The city of Los Angeles will open cooling centers in South L.A., the San Fernando Valley and the Eastside so residents and their pets can...
Pacific Dining Car building, one of the city’s historic monuments, is badly damaged in fire
The Pacific Dining Car restaurant building, a historic-cultural monument where the city’s movers and shakers once dined, was heavily damaged in a fire on Saturday....
As San Francisco clears homeless camps, where will people go?
SAN FRANCISCO — A week into what Mayor London Breed has called a “very aggressive” effort to clear homeless encampments across San Francisco, a key question...
Fred Segal couldn’t compete in retail. Here’s what went wrong.
It was peak 1990s when Cher Horowitz, the fashionable teen queen in the hit film “Clueless,” needed her “most capable-looking outfit” to take her driving...
Black resident sues El Segundo, alleges racial profiling by police
Within a two-month span, Keith Puckett was visited or stopped twice by El Segundo police officers. One encounter was a visit to the 46-year-old Black...
Opinion: Gavin Newsom is reactionary on homelessness, and that’s good
Confused? California’s uber-progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, ordered state agencies to forcibly clear homeless camps in their jurisdictions and is cajoling cities and towns to follow...
California newspapers are disappearing. This city is living what comes next
RICHMOND, Calif. — For years Richmond City Councilmember Cesar Zepeda has been on an unsuccessful crusade to persuade the grocery store chains of America —...
Looking for good vibes in L.A.? Readers share their ‘happy place’
“Just before visiting Los Angeles in summer 2008, I read a story in the Los Angeles Times about the opening of the first public park...
That’s hot: Needles dethrones Phoenix as hottest U.S. city in July
A town of 5,200 just inside the California border along Route 66 now boasts a scorching new record — the hottest monthly average temperature in...