In less than three weeks the Los Angeles school officials must show, under state law, how they will carry out the steepest budget cuts in a generation after…
Read more LAUSD on deadline to make painful cuts after county says board actions ‘erode confidence’The Trump administration finalized a rollback of the Endangered Species Act on Friday, paving the way for drilling, mining and other human development across protected wildlife habitats. The…
Read more Trump slashes wildlife protections, putting endangered California animals at riskTownhomes, row houses and bungalow courts are likely coming to 57 neighborhoods across L.A. as part of the city’s plan to delay Senate Bill 79. The historic housing…
Read more California’s historic housing bill is here. See which neighborhoods are getting upzonedALL OF THEM WERE ON PAROLE OR PROBATION. SACRAMENTO CITY LEADERS ARE EXPECTED TO VOTE TOMORROW ON CHANGING CONTRACT POLICIES TO REPLACE OLD SACRAMENTO’S BOARDWALK. THE FOCUS HERE…
Read more Sacramento considers changing contract policies for Old Sacramento Boardwalk projectBoycotts. Prebuttals. Rebuttals. Historic guests. California members of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives’ approach to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night are…
Read more California’s Congress members’ plans for Trump’s State of the Union addressDowntown Los Angeles’ infamous eyesore is one step closer to being cleaned out. The skyscraper known as the Graffiti Towers — officially the Oceanwide Plaza development — has…
Read more Graffiti towers agreement clears a path for clean upPlans for a new water park at Cal Expo appear to be slip-sliding away.Water park fans have been dreaming for years of a return to the site of…
Read more Cal Expo says California Dreamin’ broke water park contract with missed paymentWest Sacramento’s mayor is the latest person to announce plans to campaign for one of California’s congressional districts in the 2026 midterm election since the passing of Proposition…
Read more West Sacramento mayor announces campaign for California US House District 6In a decision that could complicate Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to build a giant water tunnel and remake California’s water system, a state appeals court has rejected the…
Read more Newsom’s signature water tunnel is set back by California court rulingA plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year’s Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in motion, authorities said. But as four people allegedly tied to…
Read more Feds say they foiled New Year’s Eve terror plot in L.A., Southern CaliforniaABHA, Saudi Arabia — From the air, Abha’s mountains emerge as a shock of emerald green rising from a sea of sand. Terra firma brings other surprises: a bracing wind…
Read more In Saudi Arabia’s green highlands, a different kingdom emergesTalks between Ukraine and its Western allies on a U.S.-proposed peace plan to end Russia’s invasion got underway in Geneva on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.The head…
Read more Ukraine and Western allies meet in Geneva to discuss US peace planThe distinctive former headquarters of the Christian media company Trinity Broadcasting Network in Costa Mesa has sold for $44.5 million, clearing the way for new housing. The purchase…
Read more Former Trinity Broadcasting headquarters is sold and set to be torn down for new housingThe U.S. Department of Education announced new steps Tuesday in President Donald Trump’s push to downsize the federal agency. Trump signed an executive order in March that called…
Read more Education Department announces new steps in downsizing pushWASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday accelerated the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education with a plan to transfer key, legally required functions to other agencies, including oversight…
Read more Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the Education DepartmentThe Trump administration reportedly has plans to open the waters off California’s coast to new oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades, drawing swift…
Read more Trump wants oil drilling off the coast of California. But does anyone else?Shipping gifts for the holidays. If it’s important they arrive at their destination by December 24, you’ll want to be aware of these ship by dates. The US…
Read more Holiday shipping deadlines you need to knowMy first reaction, when I heard about the proposed $2.3-million fence around MacArthur Park, was skepticism. Yeah, the park and the immediate neighborhood have long dealt with a…
Read more Commentary: A fence might deter MacArthur Park crime and homelessness, but is it enough?The world was on the brink of a climate milestone: adopting a global carbon tax for the shipping industry. Countries had spent years crafting the plan, hoping to…
Read more How Trump pressures the world into burning more oil and gasThe strange political bedfellows created by efforts to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest just got even stranger. Already Republican members of Congress were allied with animal…
Read more Plan to kill 450,000 owls creates odd political bedfellows — loggers and environmentalists
