Mike Roe

The final act in the drama over whether the two big actors unions SAG and AFTRA would merge played out Friday, with the unions' members voting for them to join together.

"We're going to lay off a large number of employees. I'm not going to say how many," Villaraigosa said at the City Administrative Officer Investors Conference.

The LACMA rock isn't the first to make an L.A. impact; in 1979, a 116-ton boulder from Malibu was turned into a sculpture of western movie legend John Wayne's face.

Democratic California U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer endorsed Howard Berman Tuesday over fellow Democrat Brad Sherman as they fight over a new congressional district.

Two surgery centers affiliated with 1-800-GET-THIN are halting Lap-Band surgeries, adding that allegations against them are "unfounded and without merit."

Workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California will strike for 24 hours beginning Tuesday at 6 a.m. Union leaders say it’ll be their biggest walkout.

An L.A. jury found former Beverly Hills Unified School District superintendent Jeffrey Hubbard, 54, guilty of improperly using public money for a female employee.

Search warrants have been served in the Hollywood Hills murder investigation following a human head and severed body parts being found below the Hollywood sign.

South L.A.'s 52nd Street Elementary School was locked down as police searched for a suspected gunman after they exchanged fire with police and FBI.

The state-appointed California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group says the Legislature should not authorize $2.7 billion in bonds to start building a new $98.5-billion high-speed rail project to build a bullet train from San Diego to San Francisco because the project isn't financially feasible.

Deep in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains there is said to lurk a creature right out of the pages of gothic horror master H.P. Lovecraft. Native Americans call him "Tahquist" and they say he’s a primordial beast who steals the souls of humans. The creature comes alive in a new exhibit at Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts.

Los Angeles County is offering free tree debris pickup in La Crescenta, Altadena and Kinneloa Mesa. They're offering fewer collection sites than previously available.