The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women’s prison in California known as the "rape club" despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.

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President Biden is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a plan that offers a faster route to forgiveness.

Bail has been set at $2 million for Victory Nguyen, a 41-year-old self-employed chef, after he fired numerous rounds—estimated between 30 and 50—from the rooftop of an apartment building in Marina Del Rey while livestreaming the event on social media.

LAPD confirmed the arrest of 29-year-old Anthony Jones in relation to the recent assaults during a press conference last week.

While California continues to host political struggles over how to deal with the housing shortage, demand continues to outpace construction.

Each piece of art tells a story, with perhaps no story being more relevant to Los Angeles than the Chicano art movement. Influenced by post-Mexican Revolution ideology, pre-Columbian art, European painting techniques and social issues facing Mexican-Americans,

When I began covering California politics 49 years ago, digital technology was in its infancy and the Capitol ran on paper. If you wanted to know what was on the Legislature’s agenda, you visited the “bill room” in the Capitol basement and asked for the daily files of each legislative house.

Hundreds of homes in Joe Patterson’s Northern California Assembly district burned to the ground in the Caldor Fire. In the three years since that devastating summer, many of those rebuilding homeowners have ended up on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars,

California lawmakers don’t know for sure how big their budget deficit is, but on Thursday they decided it’s big enough to go ahead and reduce spending by about $17 billion.

You might think the home of Silicon Valley would rush to hire a cybersecurity chief, but you’d be wrong: California has left its top cybersecurity post vacant for nearly two years.

The current session of the California Legislature, like all recent sessions, has featured the state’s perpetual conflict over its acute shortage of housing.

One afternoon, after watching Kareem Campbell’s part in the World Industries skate video "Trilogy" for the third consecutive time, my mom laughed after his slow-motion nollie hardflip over a picnic table.

Credit: Thomas Leffler The Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), working with a multitude of partners, has announced the arrest of three of the six suspects involved in a March burglary of Ulta ...

The popular pastry store on Wilshire Blvd is set to close this Saturday. However, it will soon be replaced with a brand new

Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes the return of Outdoor Movies on the Promenade and 626 Night Market , and much more!

One of the driving forces behind the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) top-notch musical program was recently honored on the state level.

A global movement in choral music began with a simple request from a Santa Monica-born maestro.

Assembly Democratic Caucus Chair Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) has announced that he has introduced a bill, sponsored by Mayor Karen Bass, designed to help the City of Los Angeles (the City) and other governmental agencies implement housing strategies for people experiencing homelessness who are residing in recreational vehicles.

Homelessness has become one of the most frustrating and seemingly intractable issues in the country's most populous state.