Bill to Rescue Utilities With Rate Hikes Stalls in Assembly

Efforts to resolve the state’s power crisis hit a serious snag late Wednesday as the state Assembly appeared unable to pass a bill that would have authorized up to $10 billion in bonds to purchase power and raised electric rates for millions of residents. The bill, which required a two-thirds vote, fell just short, and … Read more

Candidates Strive to Overcome Privilege

He is a scion of American aristocracy whose path through life has been strewn with privilege. Born to a family with deep roots on the Eastern Seaboard and a powerful place in U.S. history, he was pushed out of the nest into a boarding school where he often felt out of place. But that school … Read more

Priscilla Presley wishes she ‘could hold’ Lisa Marie Presley again 2 years after her death

Priscilla Presley and granddaughter Riley Keough remembered Lisa Marie Presley on the two-year anniversary of her death. Lisa Marie, the only daughter of Elvis Presley and wife Priscilla, died on Jan. 12, 2023, due to a small bowel obstruction, according to the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s office. She was 54. Presley shared an image of … Read more

FBI Director Wray explains why he’s resigning, defends feds’ raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sunday he’s leaving his post when President-elect Donald Trump assumes office to avoid throwing the bureau “deeper in the fray” as he defended the agency’s 2022 raid of the 45th president’s Florida estate. The head of the FBI addressed his impending resignation, the controversial search for classified documents at … Read more

Digital billboards have nearly tripled along California freeways — and state officials are proposing more

Electronic billboards at the Citadel outlet shopping center in Commerce along the I-5 may portend more to come along California freeways. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times) Once a rare sight, electronic billboards that flash new ads every few seconds have sprouted up by the hundreds along California freeways in recent years, much to the … Read more

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