California regulations may prevent thousands of nursing students from graduating, despite frantic effort to boost numbers of healthcare workers amid the pandemic.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump's trade war and recent immigration raids are expected to deliver a one-two punch to California's economy.| Los Angeles Times
Some fire relief bills are still working their way through the Legislature, including some that could ease burdens on the FAIR Plan and improve the permitting process for rebuilding.| Los Angeles Times
We haven't agreed on guardrails against deepfakes. But this fictional FAQ (from five years in the future) shows the events of 2024 may force the issue.| Los Angeles Times
The AI craze has intensified in the 'gold rush town' of San Francisco, spreading through work and social life.| Los Angeles Times
The five most popular franchises for Generation Alpha are video game properties including "Roblox" and "Fortnite," according to a new NRG survey. "Avengers" comes in sixth place.| Los Angeles Times
The Inglewood arena, home to the Lakers before their 1999 move to Staples Center, will get a new name, Kia Forum, following a deal with the Seoul-based automaker.| Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post has lost about 8% of its readers and the L.A. Times 1.8%. But some argue to stay with the newspapers for their roles in reality checking Donald Trump.| Los Angeles Times
Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe as the planet heats up.| Los Angeles Times
An appellate court determined Proposition 22 should stand, disagreeing with a 2021 ruling finding that central provisions of the law conflicted with the state Constitition, rendering the law unenforceable, and tossing it out in its entirety.| Los Angeles Times
California would be the first U.S. state to mandate 100% zero-emission vehicles, though 15 countries have committed to phasing out gas-powered cars.| Los Angeles Times
Trump's authority to revoke California's waiver from federal clean air rules rests on a very shaky legal foundation.| Los Angeles Times
Documents outlining the EPA's plan to roll back vehicle emission standards reference California by name 27 times.| Los Angeles Times
The fires in L.A. have caused terrible air quality conditions across the county. Here are ways you can protect yourself, and your children, from the health impacts of wildfire smoke.| Los Angeles Times
The Covid-19 pandemic hurt American financial well-being, but the effect differed widely by education, income and race, a Federal Reserve survey showed.| Los Angeles Times
The Senate gave final approval to a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through Sept. 30. The GOP-backed measure cleared a key hurdle with help from 10 Democratic senators.| Los Angeles Times
With the Eaton fire bearing down on a Altadena home, a brother and sister had to decide what to do. One left the scene. The other stayed behind. What happened next was a family tragedy.| Los Angeles Times
President-elect Donald Trump vowed to enact hefty new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration and drugs.| Los Angeles Times
A ban on sales of new gas-powered cars and light trucks is years off, but mom-and-pop gas station owners are already facing a dilemma: evolve for the EV era or sell out and move on?| Los Angeles Times
Reversing a Trump move, the EPA will allow California to set emissions standards stricter than the federal government's. But court fights may get in the way.| Los Angeles Times
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order to ban new combustion cars by 2035 will reshape the California car market.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump said Wednesday he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move that the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers.| Los Angeles Times
In a nationwide first, California air quality officials will vote Thursday on a plan to phase out the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.| Los Angeles Times
Car buyers will bear the brunt of the $30-billion cost of President Trump’s tariffs, driving up already high U.S. auto prices by almost $2,000 per vehicle, consultant AlixPartners said.| Los Angeles Times
Car buyers racing to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs face an uncomfortable truth — the trade war is already boosting U.S. auto prices, often in ways nearly invisible to consumers.| Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration is hobbling free-world automakers in the race against China to electrify transportation. America's EV leader — California — can help.| Los Angeles Times
The move comes amid plans for deep newsroom cuts to stem the steep financial losses by the paper's owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and his family.| Los Angeles Times
Patrick Soon-Shiong and his family purchased the L.A. Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune from Chicago-based Tribune Co. for $500 million in 2018.| Los Angeles Times
Plenty of challenges lie ahead as California mandates zero-emission cars, including cost and access to charging.| Los Angeles Times
Unite Here Local 11 on Wednesday filed a complaint with state officials alleging that a hotel industry coalition violated state election rules in its campaign to overturn a wage boost for Los Angeles airport and hotel workers.| Los Angeles Times
Farmers Insurance said claims from the Los Angeles fires will cost it at least $600 million, a substantially smaller initial estimate than some other insurers have posted.| Los Angeles Times
The fires will have a deep and lasting impact on construction, entertainment, retail and other sectors of the Los Angeles economy while creating a construction boom.| Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida announced Tuesday that he was stepping down 2½ years after joining The Times as its newsroom leader.| Los Angeles Times
App-based drivers plan to demonstrate in L.A., San Francisco and San Diego on Wednesday as the state continues negotiations with gig economy companies.| Los Angeles Times
Donald Trump's decisive presidential victory was confirmed after he picked up the battleground states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.| Los Angeles Times
Firefighters in Pacific Palisades and Altadena have repeatedly been hampered by low water pressure and dry hydrants, revealing limitations in local water systems designed to supply neighborhoods.| Los Angeles Times
State health officials secured a voluntary recall of all remaining Raw Farm milk and cream products. The products are infected with live bird flu virus.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump's administration, with help from the Republican-led Congress, may pull the state's ability to set its own fuel-efficiency rules.| Los Angeles Times
The University Professional and Technical Employees CWA Local 9119, representing approximately 20,000 UC healthcare, research and technical employees, announced the results of a strike authorization vote.| Los Angeles Times
In a lawsuit, Lyft accused San Francisco of improperly calculating the company's taxes by including driver compensation in its revenue.| Los Angeles Times
In November, there were 46,610 migrants stopped at the U.S-Mexico border, the lowest number of apprehensions during the Biden administration.| Los Angeles Times
California is prepared to offer state tax rebates for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump administration scuttles the federal EV tax credit, the governor said.| Los Angeles Times
A group of prosecutors and law enforcement leaders is pushing Proposition 20, arguing that it is needed to fix what they say are flaws in past criminal justice reforms. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, an opponent of the measure, has called it "very inhuman."| Los Angeles Times
California's voters typically lean heavily to the left. So, why did a minimum-wage boost fail?| Los Angeles Times
California officials must finalize the state budget and the list of measures that will go on the ballot by the end of June. Secret budget conversations are intertwined with deal-making around the 2024 ballot.| Los Angeles Times
Those new weight-loss drugs will slash spending on obesity-related illness, so why is it so hard to get insurers to cover them?| Los Angeles Times
Apple's AI researchers gave these AI systems a simple arithmetic problem that schoolkids can solve. The bots flunked.| Los Angeles Times
A California law classifying Uber and other ride-hail and delivery drivers as employees rather than independent contractors is constitutional, federal court says.| Los Angeles Times
California Supreme Court upholds Prop. 22, which allows Uber, Lyft and other gig economy companies to classify their drivers as independent contractors.| Los Angeles Times
In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.| Los Angeles Times
In a frightening use of deepfake technology, scammers are using AI-powered audio and video to pass themselves off as their targets' relatives or loved ones in real time.| Los Angeles Times
As powerful anti-obesity drugs become more widely available, companies are repositioning themselves with new products and services.| Los Angeles Times
ChatGPT and other new AI services benefit from a science fiction-infused marketing frenzy unlike anything in recent memory. There's more to fear here than killer robots.| Los Angeles Times
People without memory problems could be diagnosed with Alzheimer's under a plan by an influential scientific panel dominated by members with ties to drug companies.| Los Angeles Times
California's plastic bag ban aimed to reduce waste and increase recycling, but it hasn't worked out as planned. What went wrong?| Los Angeles Times
