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Many Westside residents without air conditioning told The Times they drastically altered their daily routines due to oppressive heat and humidity. Some avoided cooking and slept on friend's couches.

Roughly two months after fire ripped through Newhall's historic downtown, four people are under arrest, accused of arson and conspiracy in the devastating blaze.

To win the race, Mayor Karen Bass will need to boost turnout among the city's Black voters and across South L.A. But Councilmember Nithya Raman is also fighting for those votes.

Cal Fire does not credit Watch Duty as the inspiration for the AwareCA app. But it does address the uneasiness of many fire officials that residents are getting life-and-death information from a nonofficial source.

The strike team will aim to knock down bureaucratic hurdles and ensure that state agencies, local governments and LA28 are working together to ensure a successful Olympics.

California regulators adopted a controversial plan changing how the state governs the pumping of water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. It gives water agencies more leeway in how they comply with the rules.

A San Diego woman pleaded guilty this week in the 2024 death of her best friend's 6-week-old baby and harming the baby's twin. She told investigators she had a "compulsion .... to hurt kids."

Humboldt County officials say planned repairs to fast-eroding coastal road might be too late to save it.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Día de los Muertos yearly festival is the largest celebration of the holiday anywhere outside of Mexico. Latino families from throughout Southern California discuss why they gather there to erect altars in honor of deceased loved ones.

Enormous waves and record-breaking tides are flooding the Southland's restaurants and bars. Forecasts predict more El Niño-driven storms in the coming months.

Erik Navarro, 26, was taken into custody by San Bernardino County Sheriff's detectives Monday and booked on suspicion of robbery, causing injury to an elder, assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery and destruction of a wireless communication device.

Citing agents' own testimony and body-camera footage, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong found evidence of an unwritten policy targeting people who are Latino or appear to be and are working class.

Forecasters are calling for a dark and stormy Halloween in the Los Angeles area, with rain expected Friday through Sunday.

Ian Choudri, chief executive of the state's high-speed rail authority since 2024, abruptly resigned before a crucial board vote over a key portion of the route.

The National Weather Service extended flood advisories for all of Southern California's coastal counties through 2 p.m. Friday, said Devin Black, a meteorologist for the weather service's Oxnard office. They were originally scheduled to expire Thursday at 1 p.m.

Forgot to register to vote? Don't know where my polling place is? Where is my nearest ballot box? All the answers to your Election Day burning questions for the 2026 California general election.

With less than a week until Nov. 3, it seems like the Los Angeles mayor's race is Karen Bass' to lose.

The city and county of Los Angeles, long at odds over homeless services, have in principle reached an agreement that would give the city control who gets placed in city shelters and housing.

While Flock has faced the brunt of the country's backlash against automated license plate readers, its main competitor has emerged as a winner in the race to equip LAPD with surveillance technology.

Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana studies planets beyond our solar system in the search for alien life. But he now faces challenges closer to Earth: Trump threats and Caltech's potential loss of NASA's JPL.