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A home is on fire at night and smoke covers the air. In the background more fires are seen.

Climate & Environment

What California can learn from Texas on rebuilding after a natural disaster

An Assembly bill by John Harabedian aims to speed up housing recovery after the L.A. fires through a state-led task force.

Health

Trump signs an order restricting gender-affirming care for people under 19

President Trump signed an executive order seeking to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under the age of 19.

Food

Food holds special meaning on the Lunar New Year. Readers share their favorite dishes

Many dishes eaten during the Lunar New Year are special to the holiday. NPR readers shared their most cherished dishes.

An older man in his 90's and a woman, both with dark skin, are smiling at the camera. She is wearing a pink and red chiffon scarf on top of a sundress; he is wearing an African-looking blue headress and a white shirt

Explore LA

My godfather was a Black aerospace engineer who worked on the Apollo moon mission. I knew his story had to be told

The new LAist Studios podcast, LA Made: The Other Moonshot, explores the experiences of three Black aerospace engineers in L.A. who overcame daily discrimination to make key contributions to the space race.

Education

What happens to large animals evacuated in a fire? Here's how they're taken care of

Pierce College students made use of the skills they honed in class to help hundreds of large, stressed-out animals.

The setting is a courtroom: A man wearing a dark suit is sitting and looking at a man, also wearing a dark suit, as the man is speaking in reference to some papers in his hand.

Criminal Justice

Is the OC snitch scandal over? Why there’s no easy answer

The federal government recently settled with Orange County over reforms. But a pending ruling could call into question their effectiveness. A decision is expected soon.

A black and white close-up of three eggs laying sideways in a nest of twigs and branches, with the head of a bald eagle peaking over them from above.

Climate & Environment

Full nest: Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow lay third egg

Big Bear’s internet-famous bald eagle couple are getting another shot at parenthood.

A landscape photo of a large red and yellow block letter sign that reads "CSUDH" below the block letters a white block with black letters reads "California State University, Dominguez Hills." Bushes surround the sign at the base and behind the sign, towards the right of frame there are two palm trees.

Education

Cal State layoffs reach SoCal campuses as budget tightens

CSU Dominguez Hills announced nearly three dozen people will be laid off this semester.

Two men stand on opposite sides of a yard hosing down a structure which has burned down.

Housing & Homelessness

LA County seeks to suspend some state building laws in fire-ravaged areas, but housing advocates object

The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to ask the state for a reprieve from laws that set density and energy requirements in burn zones.

An older man with white hair and wearing a blue suit jacket and red tie sits in front of a microphone.

Civics & Democracy

This would be ‘devastating’: California sues to stop Trump’s chaos-inducing federal funding freeze

Following a Monday executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to freeze all federal aid, California officials attempt to make sense of the chaos.

Smoke and flames come out of mountain tops at night.

Climate & Environment

The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland-urban interface. Here’s what that is

Nearly 1-in-3 Californians live in the wildland-urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

Climate & Environment

This economist survived a wildfire. Now she's taking on California's insurance crisis

An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

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