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The largest spending so far appears to be Airbnb in support of Karen Bass, and the LAPD officers’ union and a major landlord company against Nithya Raman.
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L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is directing city departments to stop the Lineage warehouse from being rebuilt for now.
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Boyle Heights families have faced smoke, stench and pests. Los Angeles Unified says after deep cleaning, their campuses are safe.
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Follow the fast-moving developments under the Trump Administration.
Todd Blanche's nomination to serve as attorney general has been held up in a Senate committee over the $1.8 billion fund.
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Authorities say they have arrested a man who was walking the grounds and appeared to be monitoring security planning at President Trump’s California golf course.
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The flare-up on multiple fronts raised the risk of a return to all-out war, underscoring the difficulty of winding down a conflict that has jolted the world economy. -
The U.S. continued airstrikes in Iran while Tehran launched retaliatory attacks on U.S. targets in the Gulf. -
Four Republicans joined Democrats to approve the measure. While it is not legally binding, the resolution represents growing frustration inside Congress over the war.
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County supervisors voted Tuesday to help small businesses affected by the aftermath of the Boyle Heights warehouse fire.
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Residents living beside The Silver Platter’s proposed new home say work schedules, language barriers and an unfamiliarity with Zoom kept many from speaking at a hearing. -
L.A. City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado introduced seven motions Tuesday, all geared at providing immediate and long-term relief.
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Tough decisions come after the Los Angeles County Office issues a “Lack of Going Concern” letter to LAUSD.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District Board planned to vote on firing former Superintendent Alberto Carvalho for cause before he resigned in June. -
For the first time, starting this fall, 56 East L.A. College students will use student housing at Cal State L.A. in an effort to address housing insecurity.
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"People think of this as the ultimate Hollywood experience," says Escott Norton, former executive director of the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation.
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Nearly a century in, the Fairfax institution is still going strong — feeding Canter's original patrons’ grandkids and their grandkids.
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LAist sat down with two of the minds behind Pawn Shop, a new sports bar on Melrose with menu items like pickle-brined fried chicken and caviar.
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Obsessive sourcing, a tight menu, USDA Prime over mesquite — and a $7 taco. Inside the most ambitious new taco stand in L.A. -
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Three drinks, three rituals, one hot summer — from the midday vermouth hour to evening gin and tonics.
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Imperfect ParadiseLAist's weekly on-demand news magazine show that pulls back the curtain and dives deeper into the biggest and most consequential SoCal stories of the week from our newsroom. New episodes drop every Friday.
Listen 30:25The city of Los Angeles is home to over two thousand active oil wells, many concentrated in communities of color where residents have long reported serious health issues. On this episode of Imperfect Paradise, LAist’s Erin Stone takes us inside one neighborhood’s fight to shut down a drill site, and explores what a broader effort to phase out drilling could mean for a region whose economy and infrastructure were built on an oil field.
Can a city built by the oil industry stop drilling for good?
