Costco is rapidly expanding in 2026, with new locations recently opened or scheduled to open soon in California and across the country, as well as an international location. The warehouse giant is famous for its bulk items, $1.50 hot dog combination and rotisserie chickens. CEO Ron Vachris announced during a March second-quarter earnings call that […]

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, City Councilmember Nithya Raman and reality TV personality Spencer Pratt clashed over homelessness, housing and public safety during a Los Angeles mayoral debate Wednesday night. The candidates spent much of the debate discussing the city’s homelessness crisis, including whether unhoused people should be required to accept shelter if beds are […]

You can “Play Your Way” at this year’s Los Angeles County Fair, which opens Thursday. “It’s the grand opening of the 104th L.A. County Fair. The big drivers that bring people into the fair are the animals, the music and of course the food,” L.A. County Fair Association Chairman of the Board Mike Driebe said. […]

Nothing is new and history repeats. When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month, endangering the project of multiracial democracy that flowed from the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s, it did so by using many of the same logical—and illogical—devices the high court deployed to help end […]

In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council moved to end the Police Department’s use of pretextual stops, a law enforcement tactic long criticized by civil rights advocates who say it disproportionately targets Black and Latino residents. Pretextual stops occur when officers pull over or detain someone for a minor violation as a […]

A Ventura County man was charged with trafficking a 14-year-old boy who had been reported missing by family members. Brandon Holguin, 26, of Thousand Oaks, reportedly targeted the boy at a thrift store about four to six months before the incident, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. From May 2-5, 2025, Holguin is […]

California farmers are preparing to destroy an estimated 420,000 peach trees after the collapse of a major fruit processor left growers across the Central Valley without buyers for tens of thousands of tons of fruit. The closure of Del Monte Foods’ canneries in Modesto and Hughson in April devastated many multi-generational farms that relied on […]

On Wednesday, FBI agents reportedly raided the office and business of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, the Virginia legislator and prominent leader of the state’s recent redistricting effort that won Democrats four more likely seats in the House of Representatives.  The senator’s office and cannabis dispensary, located on the same block, were swarmed by armed […]