Supreme Court denies oil industry plea to block climate lawsuits filed by California, other blue states
Supreme Court will not block California’s suit against big oil companies for damage from climate change.
Stuart Spencer, GOP strategist who helped Reagan become California governor, 40th president, dies
Spencer helped invent the modern political consulting business with its emphasis on TV-centric campaigning.
Weather service issues its most severe fire warning for L.A. as winds pick up
The most serious red flag fire weather warning has been issued by the NWS for swaths of L.A. and Ventura counties starting before dawn Tuesday.
Harvard study suggests tactic for U.S. jails to reduce inmate deaths
County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation, according to new research by Harvard University economists — but inmates remain frustrated by poor levels of treatment care even at facilities that have undergone the process.
UCLA is ‘a ghost town’ as students flee campus next to Palisades fire evacuation zone
The UCLA campus in Westwood is not in an evacuation zone but right next to mandatory evacuation areas as well as evacuation warning zones. But many on- and off-campus students have already left.