California's largest recycling center business, RePlanet, shuts down - Los Angeles Times
RePlanet, California's largest operator of recycling redemption centers, has shut down all 284 of its centers and laid off 750 employees| Los Angeles Times
RePlanet, California's largest operator of recycling redemption centers, has shut down all 284 of its centers and laid off 750 employees| Los Angeles Times
The labor groups are demanding multibillion-dollar investments in building 50,000 units of worker housing and a ban on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms.| 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
Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong — one of L.A.'s wealthiest residents — is expected to take ownership of the Los Angeles Times this month. It would be his highest-profile venture in a long and lucrative career that began halfway around the world in apartheid South Africa.| Los Angeles Times
Biotech billionaire Dr.| Los Angeles Times
Businesses that survived the Los Angeles fires are still hoping for a return to normalcy and grappling with the impact the destruction has had. As customers slowly return to a changed landscape, some wonder how long it will take to get back to business as usual.| Los Angeles Times
Faced with a looming threat to their way of doing business, Uber, Lyft and other major on-demand companies are trying something they’ve historically been reluctant to do: seeking compromise.| 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
Trump's authority to revoke California's waiver from federal clean air rules rests on a very shaky legal foundation.| Los Angeles Times
Uber, Lyft and other gig companies spent millions of dollars to shape California labor law in their image. The result: support from voters in neighborhoods as varied as Beverly Hills and Compton.| Los Angeles Times
Gig companies have poured a historic amount of money into defeating a law to make workers employees. What happens if their effort fails?| Los Angeles Times
The Transportation Network Company Drivers Labor Relations Act, set to be introduced Tuesday, is backed by SEIU California and would seek to allow drivers to collectively bargain.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump's order imposing new tariffs on scores of countries and the European Union starting in seven days has injected a new dose of uncertainty in an already uncertain process.| Los Angeles Times
The AI frenzy has been fueled by relentless hype, but the dud launched by OpenAI has its former enthusiasts wondering if they've been taken.| Los Angeles Times
Migrants waiting in border towns have increasingly turned to TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites for updates on how the expiration of immigration policy Title 42 will affect them.| Los Angeles Times
How should we think about anti-vaccine activists who die from COVID?| Los Angeles Times
The latest $40-billion investment round will bring the ChatGPT's valuation to $300 billion.| Los Angeles Times
On Wednesday, the government said second-quarter GDP growth was 3% annualized. On Friday, the government said job growth had cratered, pointing to recession.| Los Angeles Times
Unions were optimistic about the appointment of Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor Secretary, but her actions have dashed their hopes.| Los Angeles Times
After four years of the labor-friendly Biden administration, employers and labor groups alike are wary of what lies ahead in Trump's second term.| Los Angeles Times
“We see AGs banding together, governors banding together, as advocates work on the ground,” said Arneta Rogers, executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley’s law school. “That feels somewhat more hopeful — that people are thinking about a coordinated strategy.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
Bowen Zhang, a key multimodal AI researcher at Apple, left the company on Friday and is set to join Meta’s recently formed superintelligence team, according to people familiar with the matter.| 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
Andrei Cherny, who pivoted to finance from a career in politics, has raised $110 million from venture capital firms for his financial tech outfit.| Los Angeles Times
Say it ain’t so: Weezer’s Scott Shriner is selling his modern treehouse in Silver Lake.| Los Angeles Times
Inflation rose last month to its highest level in four months as the cost of gas, food, and groceries rose, reversing several months of cooling price pressures.| Los Angeles Times
California Democrats aim to ease the state’s gasoline standards and streamline permitting for refineries in a bid to prevent more fuelmakers from shutting down.| 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
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’s plan to scrap federal incentives for electric vehicles will be a major speed bump for battery-powered transportation in the U.S., but not a brick wall, according to forecasts.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump’s efforts to unravel policies supporting electric vehicles threatens to turn the U.S. into a laggard for years to come, according to a new report.| Los Angeles Times
Like YouTube, Roblox started as an online stage for young creators. As the company grows toward 100 million active daily users, contributors are making big money selling games.| Los Angeles Times
Stater Bros. Markets has laid off dozens of clerks in its Southern California stores, blaming inflation and tariffs, amid a fight for a new labor contract.| Los Angeles Times
Plenty of challenges lie ahead as California mandates zero-emission cars, including cost and access to charging.| Los Angeles Times
Karl Rudnick, a retired 69-year-old mathematician who lives in Solana Beach, Calif., recently bought a second home outside Minneapolis to be close to family members.| Los Angeles Times
A decade ago, ESPN gambling analyst Doug Kezirian was toiling in Las Vegas as the host of a local radio show that specialized in sports wagering.| Los Angeles Times
Former ESPN President John Skipper said an extortion threat from a cocaine dealer led to his exit from the company in December.| Los Angeles Times
ESPN President James Pitaro talks a lot about having a direct relationship with the consumer, even in his own household.| Los Angeles Times
Financial pressures on Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN will lead to the layoffs of another 100 employees this year in a further sign of how the sports media giant has been buffeted by changing consumer habits.| Los Angeles Times
Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday a sweeping restructuring aimed at accelerating its global expansion during a period of upheaval for Hollywood.| 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
Labor advocates and some elected officials are calling on Los Angeles County to adopt a minimum wage of at least $25 an hour.| Los Angeles Times
Construction of a new high-rise addition to the Hilton hotel in Universal City was approved by the Los Angeles Planning Commission, clearing a major hurdle for the long-planned expansion.| Los Angeles Times
Trump's proposed 50% cut in NASA's science budget would turn the agency into an empty shell. Who's behind this?| Los Angeles Times
A new study commissioned by the Southern California Leadership Council found that the county would lose $4.6 billion to $8.9 billion in economic output over the next five years from the Palisades and Eaton fires.| 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
It’s not exactly a “Toy Story” sequel, but Mattel is redoubling its efforts in the entertainment industry by launching a new film division.| Los Angeles Times
The obsession with skin care among Gen Alpha is leading to a windfall of unexpected business for the booming $164-billion global skin-care industry, which historically has targeted women, not girls| 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
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
Joe Sanberg and other anti-poverty activists say California's current path to a $15 hourly minimum wage isn't enough given rising living costs.| Los Angeles Times
With Trump on the warpath against EVs, buyers and sellers in California watch warily as he tries to dismantle Biden-era incentives that supported the industry.| Los Angeles Times
A number of California grocery store chains are pushing a ballot measure, Prop. 20, that would roll back recent criminal justice reforms.| Los Angeles Times
Workers struggling with higher expenses called the wage proposal a matter of survival. Business owners warned they would scale back operations or shut down.| Los Angeles Times
As wildfires continue in Southern California, estimates of the total economic loss from the blazes have ballooned to more than $250 billion, making it one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history.| Los Angeles Times
Thousands of University of California healthcare, research and technical employees began what's expected to be a three-day strike Wednesday.| 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
A union representing University of California service and patient care workers authorized a two-day strike this week, accusing the university system of engaging in illegal bad faith bargaining over the terms of a new contract.| 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
California's voters typically lean heavily to the left. So, why did a minimum-wage boost fail?| Los Angeles Times
Mississippi defines all that's wrong with states' rights.| Los Angeles Times
From Politico and Kaiser Health News comes this jaw-dropping look at Mississippi, the national graveyard of the Affordable Care Act's promise: "There are wide swaths of Mississippi where the Affordable Care Act is not a reality,” Conner Reeves, who led Obamacare enrollment at the University of…| Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times articles covering technology, including social media, apps, electronics and other news of tech companies.| 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
At a moment when the prospect of executives and managers using software automation to undermine work in professions everywhere loomed large, the WGA strike took on major symbolic weight.| Los Angeles Times
After Uber and other gig giants failed to pay a mandated rate hike, two eagle-eyed drivers started asking questions — and won a jackpot for California gig workers.| 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
On the cusp of bankruptcy, Mod Pizza, with more than 40 locations in California and 500 across the country, has been acquired by Elite Restaurant Group.| 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
A California judge ruled Friday that parts of Prop. 22 are unconstitutional, rendering the ballot measure unenforceable.| 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
When the 2019 NFL draft took over downtown Nashville last month, ESPN became a city within the city, with more than 600 staffers and freelancers on site, and its top executive, Jimmy Pitaro, surveyed the scene like its mayor.| Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.| Los Angeles Times
