The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is considering canceling a $1.7-billion contract to replace the dungeon-like Men's Central Jail downtown amid growing unease about whether the county's incarceration policy prioritizes mental health treatment.
Sure, voters may back tougher background checks and want to ban military-style assault weapons. But gun control ranks low among voter priorities.
GARDEN GROVE, CA - AUGUST 07, 2019 — Coroners removing the one of the two shooting victims from Casa De Portola apartment complex on 12162 Jentges Ave. Thursday August 08, 2017 morning in Garden Grove. A man stabbed to death two people yesterday before getting on crime spree and killing two more in Orange County. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
Orange County knife attacks: Two hours of terror as suspect kills four and injures two in series of attacks
This is the first time a GPS-collared mountain lion has crossed the freeway near the Santa Monica Mountains during the course of a 17-year study.
Riding the buses of Los Angeles: A beginner's guide
Charles Manson and his followers were convicted of killing nine people. But detectives have long believed they were responsible for many more deaths. Here's where those cases stand.
During a World War II Victory Bond drive, the city of Los Angeles purchased $6 million in bonds using already approved construction project funds.
Orange County first emerged as a visible and often hard-line symbol of American conservatism in the 1960s and has figured prominently for the GOP in the decades since.
L.A. Times reporter Daniel Miller returns to the site of Big Willie Robinson's storied track and grapples with the street racer's complicated legacy.
Police in Orange County were responding to multiple homicides in Garden Grove Wednesday night after a series of attacks.
Police take a man into custody in a double stabbing in Garden Grove earlier in the day on Wednesday. Aug. 7, 2019. (Photo by OnSceneTV)
Attorneys gave closing arguments in the murder trial of accused serial killer Michael Gargiulo.
Allowing the sale and consumption of marijuana at the festival is part of a test program that could expand to other major San Francisco events.
The "Spy Kids" series star played a real-life hero when he helped rescue a baby trapped in an overturned car after a collision at a Sylmar intersection.
Changing lanes in Los Angeles traffic has long been an act filled with anxiety and emotions.
A car involved in a street race on Woodman Avenue in Mission Hills slammed into a parked car, killing the driver.
The proposal uses $331 million from a 2012 national settlement reached in the wake of the recession-era mortgage crisis
Gov. Gavin Newsom has backed an effort to limit annual rent increases in California and says he would like the restrictions to be stronger than currently planned.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declined Wednesday to support a "right to shelter" law proposed by leaders of his commission to find solutions to California's homelessness crisis.
A single-engine plane crashed at Camarillo Airport on Wednesday, killing two people.
