| Living the dream at sea level: liveaboards seek life in coastal waters as alternative housing - Los Angeles Times |
| Jerry and Kathy McGraw said they narrowly avoided being abducted by pirates.
Like many others in expensive Southern California, the McGraws have opted to live on their boat, where they can avoid high rents, pull up anchor when they want a different view and chase adventure in their golden years.
“You know, if you have itchy feet or you don’t like your neighbor that you’re parked next to, then you just pick up and you go, you have some new adventure,” said Kathy McGraw.
Mooring in marinas from Mexico to French Polynesia and beyond, the McGraws have lived aboard their boats for over 25 years and traveled across the world. The couple have learned from trying times that boat life is not always an easy life. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-10-27 |
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| Porter Ranch community marks 10 years since the Aliso Canyon gas blowout – Daily News |
| A decade after the Aliso Canyon gas blowout forced thousands to flee their homes, residents, researchers and local leaders gathered Sunday for an emotional town hall to reflect on the disaster’s enduring impact. Many renewed calls for permanent closure of the underground gas storage facility. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-10-27 |
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| Are Large ICE Raids Coming Back to Orange County? |
| Federal deportation efforts could be ramping up in Orange County as immigrant advocates, volunteers and city officials in Anaheim and Santa Ana have noticed an uptick in ICE raids. [Article] |
| by , Voice of OC. 2025-10-27 |
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| Metro Board Approves Union Station Run-Through Tracks Project - Streetsblog Los Angeles |
| Today the Metro board unanimously approved building run-through tracks at downtown L.A.'s Union Station. The project is called Link US.
"[Link US] is a critically important project," Boardmember Ara Najarian emphasized, "not just for the city, the county, the entire region and state." [Article] |
| by , LA Streetsblog. 2025-10-27 |
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| ‘It’s still smoldering.’ A hiker's video of Palisades fire raises questions about state’s responsibility - Los Angeles Times |
| A hiker clambers across a scorched landscape of ash, his footsteps crunching on charred earth as he peers over a ridge at a burn scar pocked with blackened stumps. Below are thickets of green chaparral and densely packed homes.
Suddenly, he stops. He zooms the camera in to wisps of white smoke rising from the dirt.
“It’s still smoldering,” he whispers — apparently to himself. No firefighters or state park rangers are visible.
The video of smoke on a hillside above Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades was shot by a local resident above Skull Rock Trailhead at 11:30 a.m on Jan. 2 — nearly 36 hours after the Lachman fire ignited and long after the Los Angeles Fire Department deemed the fire “fully contained.”
The footage is one piece of a puzzle that has been the subject of so much anger, attention and investigation since the January firestorms: What happened between the time L.A. firefighters declared the Lachman fire out and when it rekindled into a catastrophic firestorm that burned huge swaths of Pacific Palisades?
The video could also be key evidence for attorneys working on behalf of thousands who lost their homes against a player that has so far not received much attention.
Ever since federal officials arrested Jonathan Rinderknecht Oct. 8 on suspicion of igniting the Lachman fire — and revealed that embers from that blaze rekindled into the Jan. 7 Palisades fire — the LAFD has faced the brunt of criticism for failing to fully extinguish the New Year’s Day fire.
But lawyers representing thousands of Palisades fire victims are also focusing on another target. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-10-27 |
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| Where does President Donald Trump fit into California’s Prop. 50 debate? – Daily News |
| If one were to watch ads and videos put out by proponents of Proposition 50, the ballot measure to redraw California’s congressional districts to benefit Democrats, it wouldn’t be hard to notice that President Donald Trump figures prominently in many of the messages.
That’s because many supporters of the measure view it as a referendum on Trump. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-10-27 |
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| Coalition urges Metro to speed up bus electrification | KCRW |
| A decade ago, LA Metro committed to electrify its entire bus fleet by 2030. That deadline has now been pushed back to 2035, and a group of environmental advocates known as the LA County Electric Truck and Bus Coalition claims Metro is falling way behind on that goal. As of the summer, the coalition says, just over 3% of its buses are electric zero-emission vehicles. [Article] |
| by , . 2025-10-27 |
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| A town hall on flood risk in Yuba County |
| If a 100-year-flood doesn’t mean it floods only once every 100 years, then what does it mean? Answers to this and other questions about flood risk will be available Wednesday night in Marysville.
As winter approaches along with the 40th anniversary of the 1986 flood in south Yuba County. the Yuba Water Agency is providing an opportunity for residents to get up to speed on the level of risk here, what steps have been taken to reduce that risk, and how to prepare for a flood emergency. It is hosting a town hall meeting Wednesday night on flood risk awareness and preparedness in Yuba County.
Residents are invited to explore interactive displays on flood risk, levee improvement projects, emergency tools, and dam safety information.
Subject matter experts will also be available to answer questions about the flood risk here. [Article] |
| by , Marysville Appeal-Democrat. 2025-10-27 |
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| LA County LGBTQ+ panel’s 1st report focuses on anti-transgender legislation, ICE raids, wildfire aid – Daily News |
| During its first year, the Los Angeles County’s LGBTQ+ Commission dealt with some major issues, including bans on gay, lesbian and trans books, federal policies targeting transgender people, plus the loss of homes of two of its own commissioners amid the massive January wildfires.
These are just some of the problems the brand new county commission outlined in its inaugural report released on Oct. 22. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-10-27 |
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| South Orange County’s Largest Car Show Draws Resident Complaints |
| Cars and Coffee — one of the largest car shows in America — is drawing increased resident complaints over noise and other issues when cars leave, leading San Clemente City Council members to reconsider the show’s permit. [Article] |
| by , Voice of OC. 2025-10-27 |
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| Pasadena Sets Zero-Traffic-Fatalities Goal by 2035 – Pasadena Now |
| The City Council on Monday will consider adopting Pasadena’s Focused Local Roadway Safety Action Plan and a resolution committing the city to eliminate all traffic deaths and significantly reduce serious injuries by the year 2035. [Article] |
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| Fullerton to consider offering financial aid to immigrants in response to ICE sweeps | LAist |
| The Fullerton City Council will vote on whether to offer immigrants rental and legal assistance at the next council meeting in November. [Article] |
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| LAX will tear down and reconstruct Terminal 5 ahead of 2028 Olympics – Daily News |
| Terminal 5 at Los Angeles International Airport will be officially shuttered Tuesday in preparation for demolition as part of a project aimed at revitalizing the facility ahead of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Last week, Los Angeles World Airports announced its plans, noting three airlines will move out of Terminal 5. JetBlue was the first to leave and relocate to Terminal 1, followed by Spirit Airlines to Terminal 2 and American Airlines is set to make Terminal 4 its temporary home. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-10-27 |
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| Transportation secretary says he’ll pull $160M from California over noncitizen truck licenses – Daily News |
| U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday that he is about make good on a threat to revoke millions in federal funds for California because he says the state is illegally issuing commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens.
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Duffy said Gov. Gavin Newsom has refused to comply with Department of Transportation rules that require the state to stop issuing such licenses and review those already issued. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-10-27 |
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| The Santa Ana winds are back, bringing wildfire threat, heat and dryness | LAist |
| The first Santa Ana winds of the season are expected to start blowing Monday night, increasing in intensity through Tuesday night. Gusts could exceed 40 mph. The winds will also bring high temperatures and an elevated fire risk to the region, according to the National Weather Service in Oxnard. [Article] |
| by , . 2025-10-27 |
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| Those toppled Confederate monuments? See what artists did with them in a new exhibit in LA | LAist |
| In 2020, following George Floyd’s murder by a police officer in Minneapolis, almost 100 Confederate monuments were removed from public display.
Now, in Monuments, 10 decommissioned statues, most of which are Confederate, have been juxtaposed with new and borrowed works by 19 contemporary artists, inviting viewers to reflect on America’s turbulent history with racism and discrimination. [Article] |
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| New affordable housing complex opens in Pomona – San Gabriel Valley Tribune |
| With fresh tears in her eyes, Letty Corral held the brand new keys to her very first place.
The 56-year-old, who is disabled and unable to work, has lived in Pomona for 14 years but couldn’t find a place to live after a sudden family emergency. [Article] |
| by , San Gabriel Valley Tribune. 2025-10-27 |
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| Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street? - The New York Times |
| Ana paced on the sidewalk at 68th and Figueroa, her front teeth missing and an ostomy bag taped down under her hot pink lingerie.
She surveyed the intersection in South Central Los Angeles, where preteens were hobbling in stilettos and G-strings. It was a Tuesday night this January, and Ana knew that most of the girls longed for a coat or gloves — anything to keep them warm — but covering up was not an option. Their eyes were cast down, but their hands waved mechanically at every car, angling for another customer to help meet their traffickers’ quotas.
Ana was working, too, but the years had worn down any visceral anxiety into something more like resignation. Ana was 19, but the girls on the street reminded her of herself and her sister when they were first put out on Figueroa for sex. She had been 13. Her sister, 11.
Their story had been unoriginal, at least for this street: foster kids turned runaways turned recruits, drawn in by a new friend on Instagram who offered to help them get by. The friend dropped Ana and her sister off at a motel on Figueroa and handed them lacy bikinis. Ana asked what they were for. They needed to turn in $800 each by morning, the friend said. They stood on a corner, shivering. It would take at least half a dozen customers each.
By now, Ana had grown accustomed to the protocols of the Blade, a roughly 50-block stretch of Figueroa Street that had become one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States. (Ana’s full name, as well as those of other trafficking victims in this article, are being withheld for their safety.) She knew to approach cars from the passenger side and get the money as soon as she climbed in. She knew which motels had rooms set aside for just this purpose; which schools and businesses didn’t padlock their parking lots at night. And she knew she needed to be dropped back off on the Blade every 30 minutes if she was going to reach her new quota of $1,200. The sameness in the days and weeks and months on Figueroa was such that Ana remembered little of them. [Article] |
| by , . 2025-10-27 |
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| LA considers raising minimum wage for some construction workers — possibly up to $32.35 an hour | LAist |
| Should construction workers on mid-sized Los Angeles apartment buildings earn at least $32.35 per hour? The L.A. City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to order a study of a proposed new industry-specific minimum wage. [Article] |
| by , . 2025-10-27 |
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| Trump is trying to subvert California's Nov. 4 election results, state attorney general says - Los Angeles Times |
| SACRAMENTO — State Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Monday that he anticipates the Trump administration, which last week announced plans to use federal election monitors in California, will use false reports of voting irregularities to challenge the results of the Nov. 4 special election.
Bonta, California’s top law enforcement officer, said on a call with reporters that he is “100%” concerned about false accusations of wrongdoing at the polling places.
Bonta said it would be “naive” to assume Trump would accept the results of the Nov. 4 election given his history of lying about election outcomes, including his loss to President Biden in 2020.
The attorney general also warned that Trump’s tactics may be a preview of what the country might see in the 2026 election, when control of the U.S. House of Representatives — and the fate of Trump’s controversial political agenda — will be at stake.
“All indications, all arrows, show that this is a tee-up for something more dangerous in the 2026 midterms and maybe beyond,” Bonta said.
The U.S. Department of Justice last week announced it would send election monitors to five California counties where voters are casting ballots in the Proposition 50 election to decide whether to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries.
Federal election monitors will visit sites across Southern California and in the Central Valley — in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties — the Justice Department said last week. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-10-27 |
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