If you've been to the supermarket lately, maybe you've noticed a guy out front with four clipboards in his hand, trying to get your attention. He probably lo
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Runyon Canyon, L.A.'s iconic hiking destination, will be closed to hikers for nearly the entirety of spring, city officials announced today.The commissioners of
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Responding to increasing scrutiny of officer-involved shootings, the Los Angeles Police Department this week revealed some eye-opening year-end statistics for 2015.C
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Where is East Los Angeles?It might seem like a lame question to longtime Angelenos, but it seems the location and history of this community might need some fresh exp
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Raves will not be banned by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, but they could face tougher scrutiny. One county venue even plans on a rave-free 2016.The board tod
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February is normally our rainiest month. This year it was L.A.'s hottest February on record in terms of the average high temperature (about 77.5), says the Natio
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UPDATE at 11:18 a.m., Wednesday, March 2, 2016: See our new primer on East Los Angeles here.The Academy Awards' Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio has said it a
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Los Angeles politicians like to proclaim that the city is a world capital when it comes to different endeavors (entertainment, small business, taco trucks).But we be
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For Charles Lester, it must have felt like a strange way to get fired.The gym was packed on Feb. 10 with hundreds of people: environmentalists in Patagonia fleeces,
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November 2016 could prove to be a dramatic turning point in the history of Los Angeles. A number of ballot measures are in the works that, if passed, would radically
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Kansen Chu, a freshman assemblyman from San Jose, made big headlines this week by proposing to eliminate daylight saving time in California. Like many legislative pr
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Latinos are part of the largest racial or ethnic minority in the United States, and they recently surpassed whites as the numerically dominant demographic group in C
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