Southern California Air Board Approves Pollution Program
Southern California's anti-smog agency overwhelmingly approved a controversial plan that would allow companies to pollute by purchasing emission credits.
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Southern California's anti-smog agency overwhelmingly approved a controversial plan that would allow companies to pollute by purchasing emission credits.
The national unemployment rate dropped sharply in January to 9 percent, but Los Angeles and the rest of California saw virtually no improvement.
A pedestrian was struck and killed in South Los Angeles Friday morning, police said.
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel will be music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for at least eight more years.
It's hundreds of pages long, but if you want to know where your tax dollars are going in the city of Los Angeles, a full list of who makes what is now available to the public.
BP PLC says it is selling its Southern California gasoline business as part of a major restructuring after last year's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ralphs Grocery Co. has pleaded no contest to overcharging customers for prepackaged and weighed products at stores in Los Angeles.
Anschutz Entertainment Group has paid big bucks to the city to finance a study of the developer's $1 billion downtown football stadium proposal.
Councilman Bernard Parks warned the city faces no easy choices when it comes to to closing a budget gap estimated at up to $70 million.
The recent decision to expand the school year by nearly three weeks has many parents upset — with some even seeing ulterior motives behind the move.
Airline passengers coming to or from Los Angeles International Airport should check the status of their flights due to a widespread winter storm that is wreaking havoc on the East Coast and Midwest.
The $84 million downtown Los Angeles jail, mothballed for 18 months because of city budget woes, is ready for 512 inmates.
A trio of Los Angeles moms decided to give back to local families by collecting gently used children's items for kids up to 4 years old. The result? A successful organization that has built a strong community network of L.A. shops and businesses.
Egyptians here in the Southland say they'll keep demonstrating until there's a regime change in their home country.
More than 5,000 volunteers have fanned out across the city and county of Los Angeles to count the homeless, in what officials say is the nation's largest homeless census.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is adding 20 days to the academic year at its 210 elementary schools.
German movie producer, director and screenplay writer Bernd Eichinger, who produced well-known films "The Neverending Story" and "Downfall," has died. He was 61.
A group of City Council members sought Friday to create environmental "green zones" in communities with a concentration of industrial facilities.
Gun rights advocates have slammed a proposal to begin exploring whether the city can ban the carrying of exposed handguns in public places.
Nearly one month after a judge deemed certain provisions of the ordinance unconstitutional, city lawmakers have voted to make some changes to local marijuana dispensaries.
Customs inspectors have found larvae of the khapra beetle in a shipment of rice that arrived at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex from Pakistan, authorities said Friday.
You gotta be kidding me. Have the good editors ever actually talked to any of our people? and --forget Philadelphia-- have they ever even been to Albuquerque?
Visitors to Los Angeles say the city of Angels is the rudest among 35 U.S. cities, according to a survey from Travel + Leisure magazine.
AEG chief executive Tim Leiweke has made his first official sales pitch to City Council members for the NFL stadium the company wants to build in downtown Los Angeles.
Families are lining up for mortgage help outside the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena Wednesday.
