Police and firefighters have responded to a Mission Hills home where a person allegedly barricaded themselves and started a fire Friday morning. The fire was reported at the two-story residence on the 15500 block of West Lemarsh Street just after 6:30 a.m., according to a news alert from the Los Angeles Fire Department. Crews were […]

Two years ago today, Sept. 5, 2023, New York City successfully addressed the crisis of illegal short-term rental platforms displacing tenants and worsening our housing shortage. While other cities struggled to rein in Airbnb, Vrbo and more from breaking our housing laws, Local Law 18, enacted by the City Council, went into effect. This landmark legislation cracked down on predatory short-term rental companies. 

Florida’s idiotic and politically motivated move to eliminate inoculation requirements for all the state’s schoolchildren will kill kids there and elsewhere. What’s next for the Sunshine State, getting rid of a clean public water supply?

Dear Eric: My boyfriend and I are in our early 80s. I am divorced and his wife died over two and a half years ago; we have been dating slightly more than a year. We do not plan to marry, but we are in a lifelong, committed relationship. We feel blessed to have found each […]

In the early 1990s, when she was in her early seventies, Muriel Spark started to write again to her closest childhood friend Frances Cowell (née Niven). Her letters are warm, supportive, affectionate, free of the edge often perceptible in her professional letters. However, she repeatedly expresses the following sentiment: “I do envy you your wonderful […]

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Evelyn Waugh was long dead when Martin Stannard wrote his Life. Aged seventy-five, Muriel Spark commissioned Stannard to do the same for her. She then proceeded to wrangle with him, pettifogging and scornful, until she died aged eighty-eight. The biography that he published after her death, from which Spark had withdrawn “authorized” status, is thorough, […]

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of staff at two of California’s most popular national parks have voted to unionize, a move that comes during a troubled summer for the National Park Service, which has seen the Trump administration enact unprecedented staff and budget cuts. In an election held in July […]

Officials in several Southern California cities warned ahead of Independence Day that they would be on the lookout for illegal fireworks and would levy large fines on those who violated the law. In Stanton, however, it seems they took that crackdown to a new level. As reported by the Orange County Register, one Stanton resident […]

In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions, especially those concerning vaccine policy and recent shake-ups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kennedy vigorously […]