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San Jose is using AI to scan streets for homeless people's cars
The city of San Jose is piloting using car-mounted cameras and AI software by SenSen.AI to scan for vehicles that people are living in. Why would we do this? The pilot was actually launched to sys...
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Fast food workers from across California rallied at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 16, 2022, Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters
Blue gelatinous creatures known as by-the-wind sailors often wash up on California beaches by the thousands in the springtime when the ocean warms.
The state is considering zeroing out funds for CalWORKS family stabilization and job subsidy programs to help balance the budget.
The Shark Lab tracks more than 200 sharks along California's coasts through a program initially set up in 2018 with more than $3 million in state funding.
Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease's twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health Organization. As a college student in the 1990s, I was fascinated by the sheer magnitude of …
Approving two proposed killer whale species could transform how they're conserved. It would also turn a new page in one of the strangest chapters in marine mammal history.
Californians have left millions of dollars in unclaimed tax refunds from 2020 with the Internal Revenue Service. And if they don't act soon, they'll donate that money to the federal government.
Estrada is the public face of U.S. law in Southern California. To hear him so effortlessly code-switch struck me as bold yet smart. What kind of fed was hip enough to do that? I caught up to him to ask …
Nearly 900 unhoused people died in 2023 in Los Angeles, a 23% drop compared to the previous year, according to data released Thursday by City Controller Kenneth Mejia's office. But many people are dying from drugs.
Luis Acensio Cordero was denied a visa to return to the U.S. from El Salvador and has been separated from his wife, Sandra Muñoz, since 2015.
In an effort to slow the proliferation of synthetic opioid-related deaths, California will begin offering free fentanyl-testing strips to eligible organizations across the state that ask for them, the state Department of Health Care Services announced Thursday.
Metro's top security official was fired two days after she filed a report with the inspector general. Gina Osborn's attorney says they are looking at the possibility of a class-action lawsuit.
Fast-food chains plan to raise prices in response to the state's $20 minimum wage for their workers, potentially affecting a swath of L.A. that relies on the eateries.
Relatives of Cesar Chavez decry the Kennedy campaign's use of the late labor icon's image. The candidate's father, RFK, was an ally of the farmworkers union Chavez co-founded.
A strained relationship between LAX and the People Mover contractor has led to project delays, according to credit agency Fitch Ratings.
It pays to rattle more, bite more often and inject more toxin on an island where rattlesnakes could be trampled or stomped to death by imported goats, pigs, bison and deer, according to a study published in the scientific journal …
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the closure of the Port of Baltimore this week could have far-reaching implications all the way across the country for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to several …
Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either their private, Medicare Advantage insurance plan — or their doctors at Saratoga Hospital.
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