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For the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, the future looks female. The five-member body has never had a majority of women members. But come November, the board could have as many as four.  Two supervisorial seats were up for grabs tonight, with Mark Ridley-Thomas was running unopposed for his final......

It looks like longtime California Senator Barbara Boxer, who's retiring after 23 years in office, will be replaced by a Democrat – and a woman.  The Associated Press has declared that Attorney General Kamala Harris has clinched first place in the primary, earning her a spot in the runoff. Her......

For years, Hollywood and Highland was among the most dangerous intersections in the city – at least for pedestrians. Over the last seven years, there were an average of 13 annual crashes at the busy intersection, and an average 10 led to injuries. Then something happened. Between Nov. 15 and April......

The anti-development movement has seeped into many pockets of Los Angeles, where activists have become convinced that taller buildings inexorably lead to more traffic. But downtown Los Angeles, where construction cranes line the horizon and subway trains rumble below, has mostly remained pro-growth. Until now. An advocacy group calling itself the......

The Expo Line extension to the sea opened on Friday, to much fanfare. Yes, it is slow, yet it did feel like a watershed moment for car-dominant Los Angeles, and lots of people were excited for seemed like the dawn of a new era. But not everyone was so pleased. Freelance......

A raucous party in which students from Brentwood School recorded themselves shouting lyrics to a vulgar rap song took place aboard the boat of billionaire developer Rick Caruso, according to multiple sources who asked not to be named.  The dozen or so mostly white students in Hawaiian shirts and leis are......

Watching live televised car chases is a favorite activity of any right-thinking Angeleno, but what happens when one happens right in front of you? This reporter was walking back to the world headquarters of L.A. Weekly in beautiful Culver City, after picking up a delicious Chipotle burrito for lunch, when all......

Yesterday, Los Angeles realized its manifest destiny by reconnecting downtown to the Pacific Ocean (more or less) with railway tracks. The opening of the Expo Line extension marks the first time in 63 years that Angelenos have been able to ride a train to the beach.  Metro is celebrating the......

Stephen Young lives in a small studio apartment on the second floor of the King Edward Hotel, on the corner of Fifth and Los Angeles streets – right on the edge of Skid Row, where the waters of downtown's renewal lap up against abject poverty and depravity.  "It's pretty cool, mostly," he......

Cory Spencer always felt like an outsider at the beach. He grew up in La Mirada, 18 miles from the nearest ocean. As teenagers, he and his friends would carry their surfboards onto the Orange County Transit bus and ride all the way to Huntington Beach. The locals were "towheads,"......