Los Angeles County marked its eighth year in row of tourism growth last year and hosted an estimated 50 million visitors. The county set a tourism record, which was a 3.1 percent improvement of 2017’s visitors (48.5 million). The growth came thanks to a slight increase in international tourists. According to tourism officials, the number […]

It turns out that over 118,000 people were left off voter rosters on election day for the June 5 primary. This had state and county leaders demanding answers from the Los Angeles County elections chief regarding the mistake. The county Board of Supervisors called for an investigation and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla asked […]

According to KPCC, California’s top region for job growth is not in the Silicon Valley, where new tech jobs are getting all the attention, it’s the Inland Empire. According to Inland Empire economist John Husing’s annual economic forecast for 2018, jobs in San Bernardino and Riverside counties grew by 3.5 percent during 2017. This increase […]

The last freeway to be built in the Los Angeles County was the Century Freeway (Interstate 105) in 1993, which officials claimed would more than likely be the last of the great Southern California freeways. It appears that Southern California will get a new freeway because the California Department of Transportation, in cooperation with a […]

Fox & Hounds By: Annette Levi and Serhat Asci While urban and rural California may be miles apart geographically and politically, they could not be more interdependent economically. That’s what we found with a recent research project that determined nearly $3-billion of Southern California’s urban economy is directly linked to the state’s strawberry farming operations. […]

Some sad news has come to light as Los Angeles County’s library system is continuing to face an enormous structural deficit. It turns out that the County of Los Angeles Public Library system’s deficit is set to grow to almost $10.8 million annually by 2022. The system’s current operating deficit is around $1.2 million, and […]

Los Angeles County interim health officer, Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is acting reckless and seems clueless with the Air Quality Management District’s air monitoring evaluations of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in Los Angeles County by blaming a single industry for the problem. Dr. Gunzenhauser recently noted, “Based on recent evaluations of hexavalent chromium [also known as chromium […]

To gauge the metallic emissions and potential air pollution in Los Angeles County, the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) began installing community monitoring devices and found two metals of concern: nickel and hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)). In order to reduce the amount of hexavalent chromium, the SCAQMD decided arbitrarily to set an allowable limit […]

Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that will end lifetime listings for lower-level offenders judged to be at little risk of committing new crimes. Offenders can file petitions to be removed from the registry beginning in 2021. This means that thousands of Californians will be allowed to take their names off the state’s […]

A Los Angeles County Urban Search and Rescue team is being deployed to aid local authorities in Mexico following the devastating 7.1 magnitude earthquake there. County fire department spokeswoman Vanessa Lozano stated that the team was given the confirmation to deploy about 2:35 p.m. on Wednesday. They will leave from March Air Reserve Base in […]