| Mental Health Assessment Area added to L.A. County’s Inmate Reception Center – Daily News |
| A new Mental Health Assessment Area has been added to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department‘s Inmate Reception Center downtown, part of an effort to strengthen care and improve efficiency for incoming jail detainees, officials said Tuesday.
The unveiling marks “a significant advancement in the department’s ongoing commitment to care, dignity and operational excellence within the jail system,” according to a Sheriff’s Department statement. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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| California is GPS tracking a Sierra Nevada red fox for the first time. Why this is a big deal | LAist |
| The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is now tracking the movements of a Sierra Nevada red fox — an endangered species — for the very first time after a decade of tracking efforts. [Article] |
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| AQMD OKs $30 million to purchase zero-emission school buses to replace older, polluting models – Daily News |
| South Coast Air Quality Management District governors have approved $30 million to help communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution replace older school buses with new, zero-emission models, the agency announced Wednesday.
The initiative is expected to significantly reduce air pollution, including smog-forming nitrogen oxides and particulate matter — tiny particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs. Reducing exposure to these pollutants is especially critical for children, whose lungs are still developing and who are more vulnerable to respiratory illnesses such as asthma.
Zero-emission school buses help create cleaner air around schools and along bus routes, improving long-term health outcomes for students and surrounding communities, according to the SCAQMD. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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| Barger votes no on proposed half-cent sales tax for health services |
| County Supervisor Kathryn Barger cast the sole “no” vote Tuesday on a resolution to put a half-cent Los Angeles County sales tax to a vote later this year. The motion passed 4-1. [Article] |
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| LAPD on course to put drones in the sky as first responders – Daily News |
| The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday, Feb. 10, approved using a $2.1 million donation to purchase 24 drones and equipment to bolster LAPD’s plans to use them as first responders at times following a successful pilot program.
The board’s 5-0 vote sent the proposal along to the mayor and the City Council for consideration. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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| Billboard plea hits a wall: Supervisors deny request for ad to stay on Highway 101 |
| A request to keep a billboard up along U.S. 101 just south of Eureka was denied by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors in a 3-2 vote Tuesday. Supervisors Michelle Bushnell and Rex Bohn dissented.
A special permit from the board given to Allpoints Outdoor Inc. owner Geoff Wills, who leases the billboard to national outdoor advertising company OutFront Media, allowed it to be rebuilt after falling over in a 2019 storm. But the permit required the sign be torn down by September 2025.
Wills applied for a change to this permit in October 2025, seeking just compensation or to keep the billboard up without a time limit.
Speaking to the board, he called for the supervisors to consider his financial losses if the billboard must be torn down. According to Wills and his attorney, the billboard generates some $14,700 in revenue a year.
“You guys have the choice to essentially appease people’s subjective feelings on whether they want to see a billboard or not, or the fact that this billboard contributes to our local economy and is a substantial part of my business, my wealth, my retirement, everything,” he said. [Article] |
| by , Eureka Times-Standard. 2026-02-10 |
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| Gray wolf appears in Los Angeles county for first time in more than 100 years | Los Angeles | The Guardian |
| A gray wolf wandered into Los Angeles county for the first time in more than a century on Saturday morning.
“This is the most southern verified record of a gray wolf in modern times,” Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California department of fish and wildlife, said. [Article] |
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| Are voters in LA County willing to pay half-cent sales tax to fill healthcare gaps? – Daily News |
| Los Angeles County voters will decide in June whether to approve a half‑cent sales tax increase intended to help plug gaps in health care services and insurance coverage caused by Medi‑Cal cuts enacted by Congress and President Donald Trump. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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| In the face of federal funding cuts, LA County considers new sales tax to fill gap | LAist |
| The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider a proposal to place a plan on the ballot that, if passed, would raise the sales tax by half a cent to address federal funding cuts. The increase would bump the county’s sales tax to 10.25% — the highest allowed by state law. L.A. County faces projected losses of $2.4 billion over the next three years as a result of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” most of it to the county’s healthcare system. In just four months following the bill’s signing, the county lost an average of 1,000 people per day from Medi-Cal enrollment — over 120,000 people between July and November 2025, according to Supervisor Holly Mitchell. [Article] |
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| Will LA voters support new taxes on hotels and unlicensed cannabis businesses? – Daily News |
| The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved resolutions to place three tax-related measures on the June 2 primary ballot, aimed at changing the transient occupancy tax and establishing a tax on unpermitted cannabis businesses.
In a 13-2 vote, the council advanced a measure to increase the transient occupancy tax, or the “hotel tax,” which covers hotel and motel rooms, short-term rentals and hostels.
Councilmembers Monica Rodriguez and John Lee voted no. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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| Can Mountain Lions Survive as Humans Close In? California Is Trying to Find a Way. |
| For a mountain lion, the kindest intervention for a broken leg is often euthanasia. But the cub known as P-121 was getting a second chance.
Found in a roadside ditch in the Simi Valley near Los Angeles, he was one of scores of California mountain lions struck by vehicles each year. At only about five months old, he should have spent another year with his mother. But she was nowhere to be seen.
An X-ray brought good news: the break in his hind leg was clean. He would undergo surgery and remain at a wildlife rehabilitation facility for several months, until his limb mended and he was old enough to fend for himself. If all went well, he would return to the wild.
California’s mountain lions stand at a crossroads, and the story of P-121, who arrived at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center on Thanksgiving Day in 2023, offers a searing glimpse into the challenges facing the animals. Researchers and wildlife advocates have been working to implement solutions even as pressure on the animals continues to mount.
Between 2018 and 2023 alone, California added 550 miles of lanes to state highways. Populations of mountain lions in the central coast and south are so beleaguered that this week, the state is expected to declare them threatened under its endangered species law. At the same time, one huge, concrete-and-steel fix is set to come late this year: the largest wildlife crossing of its kind in the world, a $114 million endeavor to save lions around Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced part of that funding, needed to finish the project, last week.
Creatures big and small are suffering as humans increasingly dominate the planet, taking away habitat that species need to survive. The power and majesty of apex predators like mountain lions can capture the human psyche, helping inspire conservation work, but also come with controversy because of the danger they can pose to people, pets and livestock.
What happens to California’s mountain lions could hold lessons for the world. [Article] |
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| Brentwood School Loses VA Land Lease After Court Rulings | | westsidecurrent.com |
| LOS ANGELES - The Veterans Administration has announced that, effective Monday, Feb 9, it has terminated its leases with the elite Brentwood School, a for-profit parking lot operation and an oil company that have rented land on the West LA VA campus for decades. [Article] |
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| LA County leaders shoot down proposal to expand eviction safeguards for immigrants | LAist |
| The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has rejected a proposal that would have let tenants across the county fall behind by about three months' worth of rent and still have local protections from eviction. [Article] |
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| LA Mayor Bass issues order banning ICE from staging on city property | LAist |
| L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is directing staff to keep ICE off of city property and asking the Los Angeles Police Department to increase its monitoring of federal immigration agents. [Article] |
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| Work getting underway for modular apartment complex at 1141 N. Vermont Ave. | Urbanize LA |
| In East Hollywood, the site of a new affordable housing complex from Thrive Living is showing signs of activity just north of Metro's Vermont/Santa Monica Station.
Located at 1141 N. Vermont Avenue, the now-approved project calls for the construction of a seven-story building featuring 290 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments catering to households earning up to 80 percent of the area median income level. The project was entitled using the streamlining provisions of Executive Directive 1. [Article] |
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| LA County supervisors direct creation of rebuild authority for fire areas – Daily News |
| The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously directed several county departments to create a draft ordinance for the establishment of the L.A. County Disaster Recovery Rebuild Authority.
County officials will now have a week to prepare a report and draft an ordinance for the rebuild authority proposed by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath, who represent the Eaton and Palisades fire areas, respectively. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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| County to weigh sales tax hike for healthcare | News | avpress.com |
| LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote today on a proposal to place a half-cent sales tax increase on the June primary ballot, which officials say will support health care services amid reductions in state and federal funding. [Article] |
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| Grazing goats returning to Glendale for wildfire mitigation – Daily News |
| Grazing goats are returning to Glendale this week as part of the city’s year-round wildfire mitigation strategy, officials announced today.
Beginning Wednesday, a herd contracted through California Grazing will spend approximately one week removing 20 acres of dry brush on the hillsides of Verdugo Park, including the slopes leading toward homes on Las Flores Drive. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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| In flurry of new laws, the state is taking power from cities that block housing • Long Beach Business Journal |
| New laws intended to grow California’s housing supply have been enacted at an unprecedented pace since 2020, with many taking away the power cities had to block new homes within their boundaries. [Article] |
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| First-gen California homebuyers can soon apply for $150,000 down payment loans – Daily News |
| California will focus again on first-generation homebuyers later this month during its roughly $200 million rollout of the down payment assistance program known as Dream for All.
From Feb. 24 to March 16, joint buyers including at least one first-generation homebuyer and one California resident can apply to a lottery system that, if selected, would offer up to $150,000 for a down payment loan. Single applicants also are eligible. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2026-02-10 |
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