California’s workplace safety agency has received complaint after complaint about COVID-related cases fueled by lax labor protections.
The state’s slow-footed distribution of COVID-19 shots is the result first and foremost of a federal botch-job of the highest order.
Vons and other supermarkets will soon start replacing their delivery drivers with gig service contractors.
Political, Corporate and Public Health Leaders Are Failing Us – and We Are Also Failing Ourselves
A look at L.A.’s best and worst year.
A book written by the “Erin Brockovich of sewage” is a call to find common ground for clean water and other environmental justice causes.
Clovis may be the San Joaquin Valley’s most desirable community. It’s also largely white and with very little low income housing available.
Nearly 70 videos of detainee testimony serve as evidence of crimes committed against immigrant children.
An October bankruptcy settlement let Exide Technologies walk away from a multimillion dollar cleanup in L.A. Could California have done more to secure recovery costs?
Political scientist Janelle Wong on the growing power of the Asian American vote.
Trump’s education secretary seemed to be at war with the idea of public education. How much can Joe Biden roll back her legacy?
Legal observers worry a ruling against a California law could signal a willingness to undermine labor codes with ‘states’ rights’ arguments.
From the start a labor rule allowing union access to farmworkers in the field helped level the relationship between workers and growers.
Who was watching the watchdogs as the cleanup of lead contamination on L.A.’s Eastside ran out of money?
Rent control polls well among Californians, but statewide and local initiatives were no match for an avalanche of real estate industry cash.
“Plain folks” in ads warn against rent control – but a corporate-funded campaign by the real estate industry raises pay-to-play questions.
Young environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion rally for clean water in downtown Los Angeles.
The Newsom administration has established a pattern of approving permits during busy news cycles.
Estrada Courts sits within the Exide contamination zone, but the state has yet to test the homes there for lead.
When Silicon Valley rents came north, Santa Rosa passed a rent control ordinance. Then the real estate industry went to war.