LOS ANGELES — The City Council has voted 12-3 to increase the minimum wage for tourism workers at a more gradual rate and provide improved health care benefits, a move that comes as the region ...

SACRAMENTO — California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber officially certified the Nov. 5 general election results from all 58 counties Dec. 13. Weber reported that 71.43% of registered voters cast ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, attended the Dec. 8 signing of her bipartisan legislation to honor the life and work of the late U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman ...

Surge! There is no other word more apt word to describe the top-heavy rise in hate crimes in Los Angeles County. The figures released last week by the Los Angeles County Human Relation Commission on ...

“I’ll remember the Dodgers victory galvanizing and unifying the city.” “My dad died at 97 and the disastrous election. We’ll just have to tough it out. We’ve done it before. Winter in America all over ...

“No. I think its being scrutinized more and put under a microscope because of who’s pardoning who and why. Back in the day, we didn’t know who was pardoning who.” “President Biden had to pardon his ...

LOS ANGELES — Despite hours of public opposition testimony calling the action racist and a failure to demand accountability, the county Board of Supervisors proclaimed a local emergency Dec. 17 over ...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Tamekia Strayhorn is on a mission to provide much needed resources to her community. Strayhorn, a Pittsurgh transplant, vowed to rectify many of the ailments she saw as she drove ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. announces the end of a 381-day bus boycott against the city of Montgomery, Ala., after city officials agreed to let Black passengers sit on the front of the bus. It ...

The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in southwest Los Angeles. The failure of the dam caused flooding in residential streets that ...

BOYLE HEIGHTS — Under a gray sky, a crowd of people joined Los Angeles County elected leaders Dec. 12 in an annual non-denominational, interfaith ceremony to lay to rest some 1,865 unclaimed ...

Let’s start by delving into the lessons history can teach us after the presidential elections. Our first stop is the S&P 500, comprised of large companies that span all 11 stock market sectors and ...