23+ min ago  (712+ words) A year and a half after deadly wildfires ripped through Southern California, state lawmakers are asking what kind of regulations they should impose to support people who want to rebuild. One method is meant to empower regulators to block developers…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (476+ words) Breyana Brandt is the director of the Parks and Recreation Department for the city of Napa. Liz Habkirk is the assistant city manager for the city of Napa. There is perhaps nothing more American than celebrating the Fourth of July…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1424+ words) A bill to shield Altadena from two density-boosting housing laws is meant to let the town rebuild on its own terms. Some worry it could keep many homeowners from rebuilding at all. Altadena may get a reprieve from two of…...

14+ hour, 29+ min ago  (619+ words) California's homicide rate reached a new record low last year, part of an ongoing national decline in homicides that set historic lows in major cities and reverses three years of a pandemic-related spike in the homicide rate." The attorney general's…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1548+ words) A new proposal considers giving the powerful coastal commission more oversight over homes destroyed by natural disasters. That's how much May Sung estimates it'll cost to rebuild her Pacific Palisades home. With her two-bedroom house atop a hillside abutting the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (535+ words) When California voters in 1978 passed Proposition 13, the iconic property tax limitation, they simultaneously rejected Proposition 8, which had been placed on the ballot by the Legislature as an alternate tax relief measure. While Prop. 13 flatly limited property taxes, Prop. 8 merely empowered…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (535+ words) Veronica Herrera is a professor of urban planning at UCLA and a researcher studying the effects of the plastics supply chain on health and the environment. Tens of thousands of Garden Grove residents recently returned home after a cracked chemical…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1597+ words) Students who commute to college by bus and train in the Los Angeles area often experience delays and public safety threats. But they also don't have to deal with the high costs of driving, such as parking and gas. For…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (776+ words) Southern California Democratic lawmaker Blanca Pacheco's bill would have added high fees to records requests submitted for a "commercial purpose" and allowed counties more avenues to deny records and take people to court. Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco has once again rolled…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (719+ words) As the California fishing industry is entering a period where many captains are retiring and less seafood from off the our coasts end up on our plates, some fisherman and restaurants are leaning into the catch of the day concept....