In a 9-6 vote, the council voted initial approval of an ordinance to postpone implementation of the $30 hourly minimum til 2030, instead of 2028. But L.A. City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who introduced the motion, called it "a placeholder" that allows negotiations between city officials, hotel and airport businesses and labor unions to continue in the coming days. Another vote would be needed to formally delay implementation.
The co-CEO of Waymo posted a video on social media showing one of the company's driverless taxis avoiding a recent crash on a busy freeway in Los Angeles. Dmitri Dolgov shared video of a crash on the 10 Freeway that he says was caused by street racing. Footage shows an out-of-control car crashing into a freeway wall and then coming to a stop in the middle of the road, directly in the path of the approaching Waymo vehicle.
Cristo Fernandez has signed for American second-tier side El Paso Locomotive after a two-month trial. The 35-year-old Mexican, who played Dani Rojas in the hit Apple TV+ programme between 2020 and 2023, will now take up a different role for the USL Championship side. Fernandez played youth football in his home city of Guadalajara, but stepped away from the game at the age of 15 because of a knee injury.
Rail workers in Texas found six people dead inside a boxcar at a yard close to the Mexican border on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The discovery was made by a Union Pacific employee inspecting the stopped train at the yard in Laredo before it continued its journey north, a spokesperson for the Laredo police department said, citing the railroad freight company. Authorities are working to establish a cause of death for the six, who were found at about 2.30pm local time on an afternoon when temperatures climbed above 90F (32C). Nobody was found alive in the boxcar, the spokesperson said.
The first time Highland Park resident Paul Zappia received a mailer criticizing Eunisses Hernandez, his representative on the Los Angeles City Council, he tossed it in the trash. Then another arrived in his mailbox. And another, and another after that. Each came from a group called Neighbors First, which has been attacking Hernandez, a democratic socialist, over her votes against police hiring and her opposition to a law barring homeless encampments near schools. Zappia, who supports Hernandez in the June 2 primary, said he looked up Neighbors First on its website but couldn't find any information - not a staff directory, a phone number or even an email address - about the group.
In 1895, an eccentric businessman named Henry Gaylord Wilshire began developing a luxury residential community on what was then the western edge of Los Angeles. In a gesture of civic pride, or perhaps shrewd self-promotion, he cut a strip of land running four blocks down the middle of the subdivision and donated it to the city for a grand boulevard. But his gift had two conditions. The first was that the road be named for him. The second was that rail lines be banned from the thoroughfare.
Following Southwest Airlines' entry into the North Bay market last month with flights to four cities from Santa Rosa's Sonoma County Airport (Las Vegas, Burbank, San Diego and Denver), Alaska Airlines this week announced it is expanding its operations at Santa Rosa. The carrier said that on Nov. 1, it will introduce new service from Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Airport to Boise, Idaho; Salt Lake City; and Phoenix. The Phoenix service will operate once a day, while Boise and Salt Lake City schedules will be "up to daily," Alaska said. It will use Embraer E175 regional jets on all three routes.
Spencer Pratt was phenomenal last night. He prosecuted the case. He has laid out a model that we as the GOP, we cannot surrender blue states. We cannot surrender blue cities. We have to stand up and fight for conservatives everywhere they exist, and he has done that to great effect. Phenomenal model that everyone should look at.
The boy, King Darius Lozada, is 4 feet tall, weighs 85 pounds and may be wearing a dark blue sweatshirt and light blue sweatpants, the Santa Monica Police Department said in a post on X Wednesday night. He was last seen around 6:50 p.m. going north in an alley near the 1300 block of Berkeley Street. He could be on foot or riding a black electric scooter, police said.
People heading to Yosemite to escape urban congestion fumed this weekend as they waited in a seemingly endless line of cars at the park entrance. Inside, they circled aimlessly around full parking lots, scanning for empty spots instead of majestic views.
In this election cycle, debates are perhaps the most important because we have such a large swath of electorate that is still undecided, said Sara Sadhwani, a politics professor at Pomona College.
"Mayor Karen Bass is the leader Los Angeles needs right now. She has done what so many said couldn't be done - the first ever two-year decline in homelessness, reducing crime to levels this city hasn't seen since the 1960s, and refusing to back down when the federal government came after our neighbors."
Jonathan Rinderknecht, accused of igniting the Palisades fire, was motivated by a resentment for the wealthy and viewed Luigi Mangione as a Robin Hood-like figure. Court documents reveal he searched for 'Free Luigi' and expressed anger towards capitalism, indicating a deep-seated discontent with societal structures.
A 35-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The other victims were transported for treatment of gunshot wounds. They were a 25-year-old in stable condition and a 27-year-old in critical condition.
