Throngs of protesters from Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel shouted-down an Orange County Supervisors meeting to force a reversal of the plan to set up homeless tent camps next to local city parks.
The Los Angeles City Council voted last week to develop an “emergency” plan that could operate trailer and tent encampments to house 34,000-homeless — similar to the plan developed by Orange County.
The three cities where Orange County planned to erect tent camps to warehouse evicted Santa Ana River homeless people are threatening lawsuits to block the move.
Orange County found 13,950 used hypodermic needles left by evicted homeless people along the Santa Ana River, confirming public health concerns that led to the camps’ removal.
The wait time for a concealed carry permit in Riverside County, California, has climbed beyond a few months and now sits at two years.
The California hepatitis A outbreak is on the verge of reaching statewide epidemic status, as cases have spread through homeless tent cities from San Diego north to Sacramento.
Federal officials announced Sunday that a man appeared to have leaped to his death from a helicopter off the coast of Malibu, California, Saturday afternoon.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a controversial program Tuesday to pay homeowners up to $75,000 to house homeless people on their own property.
CoreLogic has reported that the median home prices for Los Angeles and Orange County have just hit new all-time highs due to spiking sales of homes at over $1 million.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has started a marketing team to increase the number of food stamp recipients by 50 percent to make sure the Trump administration’s spending cuts do not slow the flood of federal dollars.
Southern California is experiencing a shortage of nearly one million affordable homes, as the region’s five counties are battling a harrowing rise in rents, a decline in incomes and an all-around housing shortage.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on May 16 to hire a consultant to develop a plan for how to deal with the loss of $7.6 billion a year if Obamacare is repealed.
The quarterly CSUF 2017 Economic Forecast predicts that Orange County may already be at full employment, while Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties are approaching full employment.
Taxpayers in Seattle will soon be paying for illegal aliens to receive legal services against deportation charges in federal court.
Parents of students at a North Hollywood middle school are livid after being informed that their school is suffering disproportionate budget cuts that could force layoffs and increase class sizes simply because the school has too high a population of white students.
n an effort to defy federal immigration law and an upcoming plan by President-Elect Donald Trump to tighten immigration policies, the City of Los Angeles is setting up a “legal fund” to shield illegal immigrants from the law.
Texas-based election integrity organization True the Vote is calling into question whether Los Angeles County election officials are properly training poll workers to follow voter identification standards.
Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is attempting to rally Southern California to her cause by noting that the San Francisco Bay Area “controls everything” in California because of voting propensity.
The body of a 2-year-old little girl was found in a duffel bag being carried into Mexico by a California couple. Officials believe the couple was attempting to hide a homicide.
nowhere is the race likely to be closer than in California’s 47th congressional district, the terrain of influential conservative Orange County Republicans and progressive Los Angeles County Democrats.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban medical marijuana cultivation in the county’s unincorporated areas temporarily.
On March 11, a Canyon Country resident shot and killed an alleged intruder to save himself and his eight-month-old baby boy.
Transit ridership in Los Angeles County has declined precipitously in the last ten years, despite efforts by local transportation agencies that cost millions of dollars, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Los Angeles County had the highest number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States in 2014, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell says much of the blame for the rise in crime in California can be directly attributed to the passage of Proposition 47.
Los Angeles County Beach Lifeguards and other public employees will receive the equivalent of a 10 percent pay raise over the next two years, while retirees on Social Security will receive zero increases.
Without working a single day in 2014, the second-highest paid Los Angeles County employee collected almost $800,000 from a settlement after he was fired as chief medical officer of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in 2012.
An assistant director who has worked on several high-profile Hollywood blockbusters was arrested earlier this year and charged with filming two women who were changing in an on-set dressing room.
On July 6 Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell will be attending the “22nd Annual Gun Melt,” at which approximately “3,400 guns” are scheduled to be destroyed.
A man who was twice convicted of stalking actress Mila Kunis is now the subject of a manhunt, after he escaped from a Pomona, California mental health facility over the weekend.
Ricardo Medina Jr., who formerly starred in several Power Rangers TV series, was arrested in Palmdale, California over the weekend on suspicion he killed his roommate with a sword.
High taxes, strict regulations, and a higher cost of living are converging to push the porn industry out of California and into other states like Nevada and Florida, where rules governing the adult entertainment business are more relaxed. However, the relief may be short-lived.
