Helicopter crashes in County Westmeath
A helicopter has crashed near Killucan, County Westmeath in the Republic of Ireland. The incident happened at around 15:30 BST. Gardaí (Irish police) and emergency…
Voters could create a new ethics watchdog over L.A. County
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s David Zahniser, bringing you the latest trials and tribulations from…
How to volunteer at the L.A. County raptor rescue in San Dimas
Clockwise from left: A barn owl sits in its cage; a poster of owls; Olivia Miseroy, regional park superintendent, holds an animal ambassador barn owl…
Union leaders push back on plans for an elected L.A. County executive
Unions representing thousands of Los Angeles County workers are pushing back on a plan to create an elected county chief executive, warning that such a…
15,000-gallon sewage leak triggers closures at two L.A. County beaches
Parts of Venice Beach and Dockweiler State Beach are closed after 15,000 gallons of sewage leaked into the ocean near Marina del Rey over the…
Do Calvert’s properties benefit from the millions he secured for Riverside County?
Since Congress brought back the legislative process known as earmarking in 2022, few lawmakers have been as successful at securing funds for their district as…
Lake fire in Santa Barbara County grows to 37,000 acres
The Lake fire in Santa Barbara County, California’s largest so far this year, has grown to 37,742 acres, but firefighters have worked to contain the…
What’s so special about nine? L.A. County supes spar over board expansion
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record, our newsletter on the travails of L.A. city — and occasionally county! — government. It’s Times…
Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson killed in car crash
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — Minnesota Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson was killed Saturday morning in a car crash in Maryland, police and the team said.Jackson, 24,…
Is city status right for East Los Angeles?
The introduction of Assembly Bill 2986 in Sacramento has reopened the perennial question of cityhood for East Los Angeles and triggered a fight over how…
L.A. County affordable housing, homelessness sales tax heads to ballot
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to send a measure to the November ballot that would double the county’s homelessness sales tax to a half-cent…
California Gov. Newsom is moving his family back to Marin County
Gov. Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom plan to move their family back to Marin County, a spokeswoman said Monday. Both Newsom and the…
Michael Govan is kingpin of L.A.’s global arts ambition
Michael Govan, photographed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Nov. 14. When Michael Govan joined the Los Angeles County…
California legislators reject proposal to limit water well-drilling
Over the past several years, California’s water managers have seen a pattern emerge in farming areas of the Central Valley: Even as declining groundwater levels…
L.A. County lifeguard brings culture wars to the beach. Sort of
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our newsletter on the local political scene. It’s county reporter Rebecca Ellis, with help from…
L.A. County Natural History Museum opens voting to name new dinosaur
Sage? Esme? Gnatalie? The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum is seeking the public’s help in naming a 70-foot-long sauropod skeleton unearthed by the museum’s…
Billionaire-backed plan to erect California city qualifies for ballot
The billionaire proponents of a brand new city that would rise from the rolling prairie northeast of the San Francisco Bay cleared their first big…
Dear USPS: This Marin County town wants its post office back
BOLINAS, Calif. — On the outskirts of this coastal village — just past the road sign telling visitors they are “Entering a Socially Acknowledged Nature-Loving Town”…
San Diego County says it’s nearly stamped out illegal pot shops. Why can’t L.A.?
The van screeched to a halt in a parking lot along a busy Whittier thoroughfare. A half-dozen men in army-green body armor and tactical helmets…
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, frequent Newsom critic, ponders a run to succeed him
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a conservative firebrand known for law-and-order views and fierce criticism of Gov. Gavin Newsom, is considering a run for governor…