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Velarde/CalMatters Originally published Oct. 1, 2024 In her fifth grade class in a Los Angeles school, on a day when outdoor temperatures reached 116 degrees, the heat gave […] ...

With only a month before the November election, Kevin de León and Ysabel Jurado have been hard at work trying to secure local ...

As cases of a new COVID-19 variant spike across the U.S., the federal government is once again providing Americans with free ...

By Frank Stoltze/LAist Originally published Aug. 30, 2024 What’s at stake? The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office ...

Broken water fountains. Bathrooms out of service. Tagged walls. Desks scratched up or jiggling from missing parts. These were ...

A security guard was shot and killed during a robbery attempt at a marijuana dispensary in East Los Angeles early Monday ...

By Mariana Dale/LAist Originally published Sept. 23, 2024 This fall, dozens of school districts throughout Southern ...

After persevering in the primary, California Assembly District 54 candidates John Yi and Mark Gonzalez are turning their ...

Lopez/LAist Originally published Sept. 24, 2024 For three years, college students and scholars in California sought to open ...

By Libby Rainey/LAist Originally published Sept. 18, 2024 The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department has announced a long-awaited — ...

At the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Benjamin Franklin Library closed its doors to the public like many others ...