Los Angeles County

Communities near the ports say regulators didn't consider their input when weighing a cooperative agreement about pollution from the ports.

An El Segundo refinery fire has renewed questions about who is investigating the state’s oil industry after serious accidents. With the U.S. Chemical Safety Board defunded, California has yet to fill the gap.

About 14,000 people are housed in L.A.’s jail on a daily basis. The state’s lawsuit said they have been exposed to rats, spoiled meals and no clean water.

As Californians recover from fires and Gov. Gavin Newsom tries to fast-track the Delta Conveyance Project, we must learn from history's hard lessons.

The blanket blame being placed on the L.A. County Counsel's Office for the accidental repeal of Measure J glosses over the root cause, argues the county counsel.

An unfathomable drafting blunder could wreck years of work to make Los Angeles County government more responsive. Restoring the voter-approved reforms will be difficult.

For decades, California cities have systematically banned apartments and condos, preventing working people from living near jobs and transit systems their taxes fund.

As labor and delivery units close in California, a hole is being created in many communities. Even more tragic is that pregnant patients in both rural and urban areas will have a much harder time having a safe birth.

California regulators haven't updated landfill pollution standards since 2010, and appear to be only doing the minimum in the latest effort to revisit them, argues an L.A. County activist impacted by the Chiquita Canyon Landfill.

CalMatters spoke with a number of migrants about their arrests and detentions after the first weekend of LA raids. Their accounts raise potential legal questions about the government’s operation.