English county jam-packed with amusement parks named cheapest place for a family holiday
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‘Pendulum has swung’: Supervisors signal shift on Men’s Central Jail
In the summer of 2019, justice reformers celebrated because the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors scrapped a controversial $1.7-billion plan to replace the county’s…
Will Evans: Newport County in talks with Mansfield over sale
Newport County striker Will Evans looks poised for a move to newly promoted League One club Mansfield Town.Newport are in negotiations with Mansfield over a…
Can GOP Rep. Garcia hold onto his L.A. County Congressinoal District 27 seat?
Early on a Saturday morning at Rawley Duntley Park in Lancaster — the high-desert sun blazing — George Whitesides, a Democrat running for Congress, was…
California police group says rural areas have severe shortage of cops
Police staffing across California is at the lowest point in decades, with rural communities struggling the most in efforts to recruit officers, according to a…
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…