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Expect patchy fog this morning and clouds throughout the day in the Los Angeles basin, with highs in the mid-60s.

The city launched the pilot program Big: Leap for low income families. Here’s how it impacted lives.

Celebrate the start of Pride Month. See a show as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Check out the first night of annual free summer concert series, Grand Performances.

A new comedy show in Santa Monica looks to flip the alcohol-forward comedy venue dynamic. It features sober comics joking about sobriety in a sober-friendly space, the first Sunday of every month.

Some post-Soviet émigrés who once blanketed West Hollywood, Little Armenia, Glendale, and North Hollywood in the ‘90s have migrated farther north to the San Fernando Valley. A handful of Russian-speaking banquet halls are cherished, serving heaping helpings of home.

The short answer: you'll be switched to Covered California, the state's insurance exchange.

A recent LAist survey found that 63% Southern Californians view homelessness as a top issue. We are watching the progress.

The Screen Actors' Guild contract technically requires audition pay, although it's a clause that has not traditionally been enforced. As auditions become more demanding, many say it's time that changed.

Leslie Van Houten was sentenced to life in prison for the 1969 killing of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. A California appeals court has found her eligible for parole, overturning Governor Newsom's previous decision.

A court ruling this week allows a Purdue Pharma settlement to move forward that could bring another $500 million in funding for prevention and treatment programs — on top of more than $2 billion in previous settlements.

Wildfires and expensive rebuilding wiped out profits among California home insurers. State Farm isn’t the first insurer to retreat from the state, and may not be the last.

In a conversation Wednesday with LAist’s show AirTalk, Bass said her office is doing a “deep dive with the numbers.”