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Metro Rail riders, North Hollywood station. (Photo by Reut Cohen)
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which provides Metro Rail security, has heightened patrols and monitoring services in an effort to prevent possible anniversary attacks this upcoming tenth anniversary of 9/11.
First Solar Stateline Scoping Meeting | Photo courtesy Basin and Range Watch
Faced with a storm of protest over the Interior Department's push for renewable energy development on public land in California, the Bureau of Land Management has taken a novel approach to managing public comment on controversial projects: don't allow ...
Disasters are highly educational, but it's not clear if the instruction offered by the disaster that is Vernon will be of any use, either to cities or the democratic process.
Sheriff Leroy Baca delivers a lecture at the Pacifica Institute (Ryan Faughnder)
Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca called for interfaith peace and harmony in a lecture in Westwood Tuesday night that was meant as a retrospective on L.A. County since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A 'Save Olvera Street' sign seen in 2010 as merchants and the city negotiated rent prices
A few months ago, the future of Olvera Street -- the so-called site of L.A.'s birthplace -- hung in the balance.
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Shoppers in Santa Monica need to dig out that reusable grocery bag in the bottom of their junk drawer as the city banned plastic bags at grocery stores.
Beginning Oct. 1, Los Angeles County will be responsible for managing about 8,000 felons released from state prisons over the next four years.
Gold Line Metro I photo by Paul Bailey, creative commons
In hopes of preventing a potentially hectic post-party commute, the organizers of this weekend's FYF Fest have asked the Los Angeles Metro system to extend its rail service hours.
Classroom at the Arroyo Seco Museum Science Magnet School
Test scores are up across the Los Angeles Unified School District, but failed to reach both the state average and goal.
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With Labor Day and its massive traffic coming up this weekend, Los Angeles police officers are gearing up to set up their DUI and driver's license checkpoints at busy intersections.
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The consequences of what unites us also befuddles us.
Not the mayoralty that Villaraigosa imagined: The mayor has a new chief of staff - Gaye Williams, once a deputy mayor for Intergovernmental Relations in…
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