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The City of Oakland is joining a legal battle against a local landlord over prolonged elevator problems at an apartment building. The City Attorney's Office has filed a lawsuit against Mosser Companies after discovering that both elevators at the company's six-story building on 13th Street were out of service for 52 co...

Palisades Village, the outdoor shopping center that has been closed since the January 2025 wildfire, will reopen Saturday following more than $100 million in renovations. The Pacific Palisades shopping center was largely spared from the devastating fire after owner Rick Caruso brought in private firefighters to help pr...

A bill known as "Leno's Law" is advancing through the California Legislature with support from comedian and classic car enthusiast Jay Leno. The proposal would ease smog-check requirements for certain older collector cars that may not meet modern emissions standards. This week, the bill cleared the state Sena...

A family in Hemet says they discovered clear signs that someone had been secretly living underneath their rental home. A couple and their four children have been renting the property for about three months, but they quickly began hearing strange noises, including doors closing and alarms going off. The family eventuall...

Students returning to two elementary schools in Boyle Heights today could face elevated levels of lead following environmental testing linked to the Lineage warehouse fire. The Los Angeles Unified School District conducted extensive testing at 10 schools within a three-mile radius of the cold storage facility, which pa...

Monterey Park police are trying to ease residents' concerns about Flock cameras and privacy. Police discussed the controversial surveillance technology during a City Council meeting Tuesday. Monterey Park has 34 Flock cameras monitoring several intersections, and they have been in place for years. However, residents ha...

Two popular San Francisco gay bars have paused their use of face-scanning technology following backlash from members of the LGBTQ+ community. Castro district bars Toad Hall and Badlands announced on social media that they are temporarily suspending their use of PatronScan, a system that scans identification and custome...

A Los Angeles police officer is pleading not guilty to charges that he illegally recorded conversations involving his coworkers. Daniel Flores faces 16 counts of unlawful recording and could receive up to 13 years in prison if convicted. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office alleges Flores secretly recorded...

A Powerball ticket worth nearly $1.5 million was sold in Hollywood, narrowly missing the jackpot in Monday night's drawing. The winning ticket matched five of the six numbers drawn: 6, 37, 54, 55, and 64. However, it did not match the Powerball number, which was 10. The lucky ticket was purchased at a 7-Eleven store on...

El Niño could bring the highest sea levels ever recorded along the Southern California coast, according to a climate scientist at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Mark Merrifield, director of the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, says satellite data from NASA shows sea levels i...