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Los Angeles County supervisors approved a $43.4-billion budget Monday, saying they hoped it will fix the failing jails and juvenile halls while acknowledging the board's failures to successfully oversee the departments in the past.

LOS ANGELES — A majority of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and members of an oversight panel called for the ouster of the head of the Probation Department this week after the Los Angeles Times published a disturbing video showing staff at a juvenile facility violently restraining a teenage…

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a series of gun control measures Tuesday on the heels of last month's mass shooting in Monterey Park, just 8 miles away from the boardroom.

LOS ANGELES — Now that the shock of a series of January storms has worn off, Los Angeles County officials face a herculean chore: Five reservoirs along south-facing San Gabriel Mountain slopes are filled with so much debris and soupy mud that they pose a flood risk to the communities…

LOS ANGELES — A 2017 trip to observe a celebrated Italian mental health system made believers out of a group of Los Angeles County and nonprofit leaders.

LOS ANGELES — Will Los Angeles County impose a new mask mandate this week in response to a summer coronavirus surge fueled by ultra-contagious omicron subvariants?

On the edge of northern Los Angeles county, at least 200 people are living in tents and trailers on remote, harsh terrain. ‘They treat us like we’re a lost cause,’ one resident said

Trinity Classical Academy en Santa Clarita recibió una multa de 500 dólares el invierno pasado después de que un inspector de salud se detuviera e informara que los estudiantes sin cubrebocas estaban haciendo actividades al aire libre que "no promovían adecuadamente el distanciamiento físico".

Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita was fined $500 last winter after a health inspector stopped by and reported maskless students were doing outdoor activities that “did not adequately promote physical distancing.”