Public spaces where smokers can puff away continue to go up in smoke.
Over the years, Santa Monica has sought to restrict the places where lighting up is allowed, placing
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As the former captain in charge of the Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, Cory Palka was a star himself.
The
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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday posthumously pardoned an abortion activist from the 1930s and 1940s, acting days before Californians finish voting on whether to enshrine increased
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California’s plans to reduce the nation’s largest homeless population aren’t good enough, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, prompting him
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As he played to a crowd of supporters in Robstown, Texas, former President Donald Trump drew cheers as he talked up his first two runs for
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Liberty McCoy was out Saturday urging voters to pass a Nov. 8 ballot measure to limit rent increases in Pasadena because she’s
In the past two weeks, Santa Monica politics have been upended with the revelation that developers have secured rights to build nearly 5,000 new housing units in medium- and
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The Los Angeles City Council formally rebuked two members and its former president Wednesday for their involvement in a racism scandal that has led
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California communities exposed to hazardous dust by a drying lake bed have found themselves at the center of tensions between Arizona and
The builder’s remedy window may now be closed, but with 16 new housing projects gaining state-issued permission to be built larger and denser than Santa Monica zoning rules
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Joe Biden's three-state swing out West this week will capture, in a nutshell, the White House's midterm