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Help for the Southern California wildfire areas is on the way from Washington, D.C. President Bush has issued a major disaster declaration for Los Angeles, Orange, <......

Anticipating a $110 million deficit, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asked city departments Friday to submit reduced budgets for the second half of the fiscal year.

Authorities have charged a man with assault for allegedly striking "Stargate Atlantis" actor Jason Momoa in the face with a beer glass, causing wounds that required 140 stitches.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 21 - Hollywood actor Bruce Willis of "Die Hard" fame is suing Malaysia's Petra Group and Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja'afar over a "green rubber venture", Bloomberg news reported today.

There are times when the issues facing local authorities are so serious, the implications so severe, that we need full accountability and transparency in government.

Nov 19, 2008 5:00 am US/Pacific Hollywood Ponders Global Warming LOS ANGELES Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can't shove messages about global warming down audiences' throats.

Firefighters today moved closer to containing the wind- driven brush fire that has scorched 11,245 acres, including a Sylmar mobile home park where hundreds of residents lost their homes.

"BEFORE Election Day, national media hand wringers forged a wildly popular narrative: The right was, in the words of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, gripped by "insane rage." Outbreaks of incivility were ...