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It's a significant walkback from an August 2024 deal between California leaders and Google to jointly spend $175 million over five years to fund local journalism.

A dispute over reforms to an SBA program that funds startups has cut the flow of seed money to Southern California's defense tech firms.

A hiker was found dead Saturday night after searching for a part of his group who had left early that morning for a hike and not returned, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's office.

Demonstrators in Los Angeles wave flags and chant slogans as they rally in solidarity with Iranian protesters, after a violent protest crackdown that killed thousands in Iran.

The Santa Barbara County board of supervisors unanimously approved a 72-hour ban on amplified music, which would fall on the first weekend of UC Santa Barbara's spring quarter when thousands of college students flood Isla Vista for Deltopia

A 25-year-old man was killed in a crash early Sunday morning on the northbound 5 freeway near Griffith Park.

A 19-year-old woman told investigators she woke up to the sound of gunshots and said her father shot at her several times. The woman's mother, father and younger sister were pronounced dead at the scene.

Republicans have pounced on the opportunity to paint Democrats, especially those in vulnerable seats, as extremists.

The focus on the state's richest residents comes amid a growing affordability crisis in California, home to the nation's most expensive housing market and highest income tax.

Luis Beltrán Yanez-Cruz, 68, died on Jan. 6 at 1:18 a.m. at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio after being held at the Imperial Regional Detention Facility.

A dog in the San Fernando Valley was found to have Baylisascaris, or raccoon roundworm, eggs in its system during a routine checkup. It is the first formally reported detection in a dog in L.A. County.

A 44-year-old man was arrested in Tennessee this week in connection with the killing of a missing member of a "cult-like" religious group in the Inland Empire, authorities said.

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said one of his employees was 'wrongfully detained' by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, according to an internal e-mail obtained by The Times.

U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall granted a contempt motion by attorneys for Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles that called for an outright ban on the use of 40-millimeter less-lethal launchers for crowd control.