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Thousands of University of California service workers are expected to begin a three-day strike today at campuses and medical facilities across the state, including at UCLA and UC Irvine Medical Center.
The City Council is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the council chamber at L.A. City Hall to craft a policy for short term rentals. The effort has been taken two years to craft the policy and will still need further analysis before becoming law.
Thousands of union members, immigrant-rights advocates and community activists will descend on downtown Los Angeles today for the annual May Day march beginning at Pershing Square, promising traffic disruptions in the downtown area.
The city does not currently have an ordinance regulating Airbnb.
New oil, gas and mineral exploration and development will be prohibited in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument under a newly released management plan governing the largest wilderness area in Los Angeles County.
President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who is under criminal investigation, was ordered Friday to file a declaration in Los Angeles federal court stating if he plans to assert his Fifth Amendment right to avoid testifying in a lawsuit
Former investment banker Austin Beutner, a one-time Los Angeles Times publisher, has emerged as a leading contender to run the Los Angeles Unified School District, it was reported today.
With homelessness rising sharply in Los Angeles and threatening to be a major black mark on his record as he considers a run for the presidency, Mayor Eric Garcetti called today for citywide implementation of temporary emergency shelters.
A judge ruled today that the U.S. Department of Justice cannot attempt to force local jurisdictions to comply with federal immigration policies to receive a public safety grant, which prompted Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer to declare a "complete vi
Inglewood Mayor James Butts and an attorney for the city Tuesday lashed out at the owners of the Forum over a lawsuit they filed challenging the city's effort to build an arena to house the Los Angeles Clippers, calling the legal action a "sham."
A rally will be held today at the Indio Greyhound bus station to protest border patrol searches of Greyhound passengers, which organizers claim are conducted in violation of the passengers' constitutional rights.
Los Angeles is facing a housing shortage, which has contributed to a rising cost of real estate along with an escalating level of homelessness, but Senate Bill 827 would throw the door open to too much rapid development with not enough local oversight, ac