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The utility has set a goal to become 15 percent more energy efficient by 2020, exceeding the state's requirement for utilities to cut energy use by 10 percent, Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
And its fate will depend on the small number of voters who do turnout.
Nine troubled spots in the San Fernando Valley, South Los Angeles, and the Eastside will be targeted.
Three Riverside County cities are asking voters in Tuesday's election to approve tax levies on medical marijuana.
Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an executive directive today calling for a 20 percent reduction in the city's fresh water use by 2017.
An insect found in Ramona has been positively identified as the red bug Scantius aegyptius, native to the Mediterranean, the San Diego County Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures said Wednesday.
County officials eye a shuttered detention center for use as a camp to place juvenile inmate fire crews near fire-prone wildlands.
A majority of veterans who leave the military and return to Los Angeles County are unprepared for the transition.
California became the first state in the nation to ban plastic grocery bags today.
New skyscrapers in Los Angeles will no longer be required to have helipads under revisions announced today by city leaders.
A committee of the California Energy Commission today recommended approval of a new 940-megawatt natural gas-fueled power plant in Huntington Beach to replace an aging facility that's been offline since 2013