Hailey Branson-Potts

A man whom police shot after he allegedly pointed a weapon at officers in South Los Angeles was hospitalized in critical condition, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Saturday night

Shasta County voters have booted from office a key figure in the county's hard-right shift, even as the fate of a second far-right crusader on the powerful Board of Supervisors still hangs in the balance.

LOS ANGELES — Shasta County voters have booted from office a key figure in the county's hard-right shift, even as the fate of a second far-right crusader on the powerful Board of Supervisors still hangs in the balance.

LOS ANGELES — Shasta County voters have booted from office a key figure in the county’s hard-right shift, even as the fate of a second far-right crusader on the powerful

The hard-right chairman of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors, who questioned whether voting machines fostered election fraud, has narrowly survived a recall.

In rural Calexico, Raúl Ureña, the town's first out transgender mayor, faces a recall election. So does most of the City Council.

When Raúl Ureña was first elected in 2020, she earned 70 percent of the vote. Now the mayor of the California border town of Calexico faces a recall over homelessness and economic development – but also gender identity.

For Nelly Vaquera-Boggs, the plastic tarps that cover strawberry fields in Monterey County when they are being fumigated with toxic chemicals offer little comfort — especially when those fields are close to schools.

by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2024 4 minutes Save for Later Save 'It's Environmental Racism' For Later

Voters in Calexico have resoundingly ousted the first out transgender member of the City Council and her council ally after a bitter recall campaign