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The LA City Council asked today that large city venues, such as Los Angeles International Airport and the zoo, provide a report on the possibility of providing more vegan meal options at concession stands.

A Los Angeles City Council committee Wednesday forwarded a proposal to create a children’s savings account program that could begin in the first grade.

Two Phoenix police officers involved in separate incidents that drew national outrage, including one who pointed a gun and yelled profanities at a black family, will be fired, the chief of police said Tuesday. “I expect more. You deserve more,” Chief Jeri Williams said at a news conference. “Unlike other professions, we don’t have a luxury of a do-over.”

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred made it clear to Oakland: Drop your lawsuit or the A’s could relocate.

The sideshow party is over, according to the Oakland Police Department. Oakland police on Tuesday issued a new warning about sideshows in the city after a Sunday night filled with reckless driving, arrests and an injured officer.

When 73-year-old Randal Parker first moved to East Palo Alto with his family in 1952, he remembers open fields of agricultural land, a diverse and thriving working-class community and job opportunities for people of color.

A toilet-paper ribbon was cut Thursday by Los Angeles city officials to signify the opening of the city’s first self-cleaning toilet at the North Hollywood Recreation Center.

A Los Angeles City Council committee Tuesday requested a report on what resources would be needed to create a pilot program that would hire homeless people for cleanup efforts around the city.

A father who left his 1-year-old twins in his car while he went to work told investigators “I blanked out, my babies are dead, I killed my babies,” according to the criminal complaint released Saturday.

Executives from The Home Depot were in Oakland Thursday to meet with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf about two homeless camps that sit close to two of their stores.

A federal judge has ruled that a cross that has been maintained by the Lion’s Club at a public park in Albany for decades is unconstitutional. The battle over whether the cross should stay put will continue Thursday morning when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear arguments on the issue.

A city ordinance barring people from sleeping in vehicles parked on residential Los Angeles streets quietly expired at the end of June, and LAPD officers have been instructed to no longer issue citations for the offense.

The young black man shown in a videotaped encounter that showed Phoenix police pointing guns and yelling obscenities at him and his pregnant fiancee told the City Council on Wednesday that he wants the officers fired. Dravon Ames, 22, told councilmembers that he and his family “could have lost their lives over something senseless … over a 4-year-old taking a...

A Sacramento police officer was fatally shot while responding to a domestic disturbance call Wednesday, police said.

The young black man shown in a videotaped encounter that showed Phoenix police pointing guns and yelling obscenities at him and his pregnant fiancee told the City Council on Wednesday that he wants the officers fired. Dravon Ames, 22, told councilmembers that he and his family “could have lost their lives over something senseless … over a 4-year-old taking a...

A Sacramento police officer was fatally shot while responding to a domestic disturbance call Wednesday, police said.

Video surfaced of officers allegedly threatening to shoot a black couple and their young children over a reported shoplifting incident from last month. After the videos emerged and the couple involved, Dravon Ames and Iesha Harper, filed a $10 million notice of claim — a precursor to a lawsuit — against the city. Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams says the...

A San Jose councilman is proposing a new approach to recovering and perhaps deterring stolen vehicles in the Bay Area’s largest city.

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday declaring Los Angeles a “city of sanctuary” for immigrants, although it is non-binding and does not change any city laws.

Federal officials announced 116 corruption charges Wednesday morning against powerful union leader John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon and several IBEW Local 98 union employees.