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Weekend numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths are lower than they've been for July and most of August. The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus also continues to steadily decline.
The End Loneliness Initiative aims to curtail the rise of social isolation and loneliness in older adults.
Game 5 of the Los Angeles Lakers' playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers was postponed today due to a boycott initiated by players on the Milwaukee Bucks over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors' Pathways to Employment program is intended for residents 18-years-old and over who have been left unemployed or under-employed because of COVID-19 shutdowns.
The Los Angeles Unified School District is partnering with the education division of the Annenberg Foundation and a company that creates digital education materials to grant students access to "high-quality digital resources.”
The county now meets five of the state's six coronavirus-monitoring benchmarks, but large gatherings, parties and indoor church services could threaten the recovery effort.
Dodger Stadium will serve as a vote center for the general elections in November.
Saying he has zero tolerance toward alleged deputy cliques, most notably in the East Los Angeles station, Sheriff Alex Villanueva today announced a crackdown potentially involving the suspension or firing of more than two dozen deputies.
While insisting that death rates are continuing to decrease overall, Los Angeles County reported nearly 60 more fatalities due to the coronavirus today, along with more than 2,400 new confirmed cases.
California Sen. Kamala Harris was chosen today as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's vice presidential running mate.
The Los Angeles City Council voted today to initiate the process of establishing an Office of Anti-Corruption and Transparency, which would oversee, investigate and subpoena city officials.
A group dedicated to protecting the Ballona Wetlands is among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging millions of dollars in public funds have been misused for what they claim is a "deceptive'' plan to bulldoze the ecological reserve