Mayor Eric Garcetti and leaders of the Los Angeles school district and the teachers union will speak at a City Hall news conference Tuesday morning in what is widely expected to be an announcement about a deal to end the six-day teachers’ strike.

Garcetti will by joined by L.A. schools Supt. Austin...

A shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning one mile from Brawley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:24 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 6.2 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was seven miles from Imperial, 11 miles from El Centro, 18...

California State University is poised to enroll thousands more Californians and step up support to help them graduate sooner, thanks to a hefty increase in state funding proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Cal State trustees will take their first collective look at the governor’s 2019-20 budget proposal...

A former CIA technical operations officer who helped rescue six U.S. diplomats from Iran in 1980 and was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the Academy Award-winning film "Argo," has died. He was 78.

A family statement and his literary agent confirmed that Antonio "Tony" Mendez died Saturday at an assisted-living...

The push is on in Oceanside to begin legally growing, processing and distributing medical cannabis under an ordinance the city approved last year.

So far, 16 applications have been received for the five cultivation licenses available in the city. Additional applications have been submitted for...

A push to rename William E. Fanning Elementary School has been the cause of a great divide among Brea residents for the last year and a half.

Those who support a name change claim William E. Fanning, a former Brea-Olinda School District superintendent, had ties to the local Ku Klux Klan chapter...

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to use state funds to help migrant families arriving at the California border.

Much of the money will likely go to San Diego nonprofits and community organizations, collectively known as the San Diego Rapid Response Network, running a temporary shelter for families released...

Nathan Glazer, a prominent sociologist and public intellectual who assisted on a classic study of conformity, “The Lonely Crowd,” and co-wrote a groundbreaking document of nonconformity, “Beyond the Melting Pot,” has died at 95.

Glazer's daughter, Sarah Glazer, confirmed her father died Saturday...

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Monday morning in Whitmore Hot Springs, Calif., east of Mammoth Lakes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:22 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was 74 miles from Clovis,...

A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Sunday evening two miles from Lake Almanor Peninsula, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:11 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 mile.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was 29 miles from Susanville, Calif.,...

The flocks of electric scooters appeared one night late last year in Altadena and East Pasadena, surprising locals who found them perched, without warning, on sidewalks along two busy retail corridors.

“I came to work, opened the store — and they were there,” said Paul Netherton, who manages the...

By Wednesday, the Vargas family had fine-tuned an intricate dance, choreographed so that both parents and all three kids could support the teachers’ strike.

That morning, from about 6:30 to 9, parents Arnoldo and Maricela Vargas protested outside Banning High School, where Arnoldo is an art teacher...

Teams from the teachers union and the L.A. Unified School District are working long hours this weekend to settle a teachers’ strike that has so far cost students five days of normal instruction.

Hopes have been rising for a quick resolution but some already are expressing anxiety about what could...

Andy Vajna, a Hungarian American film producer who worked on several “Rambo” movies with Sylvester Stallone, “Total Recall” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Madonna’s “Evita,” has died. He was 74.

Vajna, who produced many other films, died Sunday at his Budapest, Hungary, home after a long illness,...

Corey Moss, who normally runs a production company, stood at the head of his dining table, surrounded by 17 fidgeting third-, fourth- and fifth- graders.

He’d already had them work on language arts. They’d discussed how to identify musical beats. They’d studied math using football concepts — multiplying...

The lead-up to the Los Angeles teachers’ strike was loud and acrimonious — as was the start of the walkout. Now the labor dispute has entered a quiet phase, but it’s too early to tell if it is nearing an end.

Bargaining teams for striking teachers and the Los Angeles Unified School District were...

Several times in the last few years my family headed up to the Bay Area thinking it would be the last chance to see my mother alive.

She had a bum heart and kidney disease, and she’d get confused in the middle of a sentence, like a hiker lost in a heavy fog. She had said many times since the death...

A jury on Friday found that a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy lied to FBI agents about the beating of a visitor to a county jail.

The guilty verdict against Byron Dredd, which came nearly eight years after the 2011 assault, served as a capstone on the sweeping investigation federal authorities...

If striking Los Angeles teachers needed an omen as they rallied in Grand Park downtown Friday, Mother Nature obliged. After four days of picketing in rain and chill and gloom, the sun burst forth.

“Do you feel your power?” union President Alex Caputo-Pearl asked the masses, who stretched from the...

Southern California Edison — fighting dozens of legal claims related to the Montecito mudslides that followed the Thomas fire — is putting the blame on Santa Barbara County and Caltrans for failing to prepare for deadly debris flows they knew were inevitable.

More than 75 lawsuits have been filed...

A week ago, Los Angeles schools Supt. Austin Beutner went to Sacramento to nail down support for the school district if teachers decided to go on strike.

He came back sounding very optimistic that lawmakers understood the district’s finances were so perilous that it could not afford what the teachers...

Parents at Elysian Heights Elementary speak proudly of its longstanding culture of civic-mindedness: the after-school art and music classes taught on a volunteer basis. A curriculum that stresses concepts of social justice and community. The mascot, a stray tabby cat fed and nurtured by students...

A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Friday morning two miles from Fondo, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:19 a.m. PST at a depth of 6.2 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from Brawley, 21 miles from Imperial and 25 miles...