Los Angeles is set to go on an affordable housing spending spree. On Tuesday, the City Council unanimously approved $466.6 million in funding that will be doled out to developers, nonprofits, land trusts and other organizations to build and renovate affordable housing. The pool of money is the largest in the city housing department’s history,…
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View MoreLos Angeles is set to go on an affordable housing spending spree. On Tuesday, the City Council unanimously approved $466.6 million in funding that will be doled out to developers, nonprofits, land trusts and other organizations to build and renovate affordable housing. The pool of money is the largest in the city housing department’s history,…
A months-long investigation into a fire at a cold storage warehouse that saturated Boyle Heights in smoke and rotten air for weeks was started by an “electrical event” of unknown origin, the Los Angeles Fire Department concluded. The LAFD has said the blaze originated on the roof, and officials with Lineage, the company that operated…
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California serial killer Wesley Shermantine, who along with his childhood friend terrorized the Central Valley throughout the 1980s and ’90s, has died in prison, authorities said. Shermantine was one-half of the notorious “Speed Freak Killers.” The moniker referred to the duo’s methamphetamine-fueled killing rampages, which investigators believed claimed the lives of anywhere from a dozen…
Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia. But California’s biggest river is now so warm that biologists expect a significant number of the eggs won’t hatch. Environmental advocates blame the Trump administration. They say the federal government took too much water out of Shasta Lake for farms…
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