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LGBTQ historian and filmmaker Jenni Olson follows up last year’s massively popular “Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema,” a program she co-curated with journalist, critic and author Caden Mark Gardener, with another exceptional selection of …

The City of Richmond has been awarded a $9,559,482 federal grant to improve its streets, U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, and Mayor Eduardo Martinez announced last week.Improvements will include retrofitting arterial roads and crossings, incorporating traffic calming measures such as …

Mayor Bass says home and business owners should be able to get permits within 30 days of applying to rebuild on their properties.

No deficits. A “modest” surplus of $363 million. Almost $17 billion more in revenue than planned.Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office laid out its vision today for how California should spend its considerable bounty, a total budget of $322 billion — projected …

Kathy 'Gidget' Kohner Zuckerman lost her Pacific Palisades home after 60 years in the community. But for the surfing pioneer, the aloha spirit prevails.

FEMA is operating its services in L.A. County amid multiple active wildfires. Here is what you need to know, how to apply and avoid possible scams.

Frank Smiley and his family had lived in the 1940s cottage since 2011. The Palisades fire destroyed their house, forcing them to move to Marina del Rey.

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman announced looting charges Monday, and also said one man was charged with arson for starting a blaze in an Azusa park.

Kim Kardashian is calling on California's government to raise the pay rate for the state's incarcerated firefighters battling the devastating L.A. fires.

Edwin Castro won the Powerball lottery in early 2023. He bought homes in Malibu, Altadena and the Hollywood hills. All three were threatened by simultaneous fires, and one burned.

AS FIRES RAGE through Southern California and exacerbate the state’s insurance crisis, the California Senate has no one in charge of its Insurance Committee due to questions surrounding a federal corruption investigation.Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire said he is …

It remains unclear how much the city and its mayor will ultimately be to blame for the explosive horror of the Palisades fire.

Among the many brilliant theater productions that actor-pianist-playwright-producer Hershey Felder has created in which he incarnates famous composers—in the Bay Area he’s been Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and more—this latest, “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar” at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, stands out …

Gov. Gavin Newsom is expanding the special session in California from strictly fighting President-elect Trump in court with a request for lawmakers to spend billions for wildfire response as the fires rage in Los Angeles County.

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The fires sweeping across Los Angeles County for the past week have burned more than 40,000 acres, an area roughly equivalent to 1,800 Alcatraz Islands or 400 Disneylands, or slightly larger than Washington, D.C.

A new app for Ride Plus, the on-demand transit service operated by SamTrans, will become available for download on Jan. 13.The app is intended to ease booking for riders in Half Moon Bay, El Granada, East Palo Alto, and the …

Teams at Dodger Stadium, SoFi Stadium and BMO Stadium will be distributing items including apparel, hygiene kits, school supplies and sneakers to victims of the fires.

Parking costs have been simplified, and dog fees have been eliminated to encourage visits to East Bay Regional Parks, the park district said.The updated fees include a flat $5 parking charge where kiosks are present, according to the park district. …

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