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SACRAMENTO >> With a midnight deadline looming, Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature’s top Democrats on Wednesday struck a deal to spend nearly $1 billion in fees collected from the state’s biggest polluters on programs to boost public transit and put more electric cars on the road by giving huge vehicle rebates to poor people. The spending blueprint was one of dozens of items lawmakers approved and sent to Brown on their last day of work for the year. They also endorsed measures that would expand unpaid family leave for some small business workers, require developers to install water meters in all new apartments and declare denim the official state fabric. Several other bills — inclu...

We’ve all gotten them. Like an unwanted plague, those aoying robocalls always seem to come just as we’re sitting down to dier or getting ready to watch a football game. The messages are varied but most have one thing in common: They’re trying to sell us something. Some robocalls are looking to steal our personal information Some implore us to buy solar panels or donate money to a political candidate, while others ask us to support a local charity or take a ride-share survey. And it gets worse. Some of these automated calls offer fraudulent credit card services or questionable auto warranty protection. In many cases, they’re simply trying to steal our personal information. They’re increasing...

Results for the two-day vote should be finalized late Tuesday. Union workers interviewed Monday appeared pleased with the contract, especially the preservation of pension and health care benefits. “I’m satisfied. All we ask is that we be treated fairly,” said Celia Thompson, a 25-year floral supervisor at an Albertsons in Fullerton. Union leaders said ratification seemed imminent. “From what the reps were telling me, it looks like it will easily be accepted,” said Greg Conger, president of Local 324 in Buena Park. Negotiations with Vons, Albertsons and Ralphs have been ongoing since the union contract expired in March for 50,000 Southe Califoia grocery workers. The main sticking points have...

Some 50,000 Southe Califoia grocery workers will walk into union offices on Monday to cast their vote on a tentative agreement that, if approved, would avoid another devastating strike. After intense round-the-clock negotiations this week, union workers and the three major supermarket chains – Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons – have agreed on terms for a new contract, which includes wage increases and affordable health care for supermarket workers, Ralphs spokeswoman Kendra Doyel said in a statement to Southe Califoia News Group. “We are able to give our associates pay increases, keep their health care very affordable, and a stable pension,” Doyel said. She said she could not reveal any more spe...

Five rescued after boat strikes San Pedro breakwall Home → News → Boating accidents By City News Service SAN PEDRO >> Five people were rescued Monday night from a 25-foot boat that struck the breakwall near the Port of Los Angeles lighthouse in San Pedro. One person was plucked from the rocks and four others from the vessel at 9:45 p.m., said David Ortiz of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The occupants of the boat walked away with minor cuts and scrapes, according to Sgt. Day Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Port Police. The vessel is safe and tied up at a nearby dock as police investigate the damage at the scene, Rodriguez said. Advertisement Please enable...

WASHINGTON >> The Supreme Court has struck down Texas’ widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics in the court’s biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century. The justices voted 5-3 Monday in favor of Texas clinics that protested the regulations as a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation’s second-most populous state. Justice Stephen Breyer’s majority opinion for the court held that the regulations are medically uecessary and unconstitutionally limit a woman’s right to an abortion. Texas had argued that its 2013 law and subsequent regulations were needed to protect women’s health. The rules required doctors who perform abortions t...

You can’t walk far into Carson’s SouthBay Pavilion without seeing the signs of change. Construction workers behind temporary facades are readying revamped Vitamin World, Wingstop and Mrs. Fields stores while shoppers peruse newly opened tenants with nationwide popularity: Sephora cosmetics, Payless Super Store, Chuck E. Cheese’s, Kay Jewelers and others. It’s part of a $28 million renovation at the 1970s-era, 73-acre complex best known to greater Los Angeles as home to a regional Ikea off the 405 Freeway on Avalon Boulevard. Other anchor tenants include Sears, JCPeey, Target and a 13-screen Cinemark movie theater that opened last year. The theater increased foot traffic into the mall by 25 p...

LOS ANGELES >> Hundreds of registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center began a four-day strike today -- the second walkout at the hospital in three months. Officials with the Califoia Nurses Association/National Nurses United union contend the walkout is part of a push for increased staffing levels to improve patient care, but Kaiser officials denied that claim, saying nursing staff ratios at the hospital “meet or exceed state guidelines.” “This strike is not about quality or adequate staffing levels,” according to Kaiser. “The quality of care our teams at LAMC provide has never been higher. In fact, in 2015 LAMC was named one of the Top 10 Best Hospitals in Calif...

With another potential grocery strike looming in Southe Califoia, shoppers are likely wondering how things will play out. When will the strike happen? What supermarkets will be affected? Will people have to cross angry picket lines to shop at their favorite stores? Valid questions, to be sure. But the grocery chains and their employees hope to avoid a strike. And if it does come to that, it likely wouldn’t happen right away. Here’s where things stand: An estimated 50,000 United Food and Commercial Workers members voted Tuesday to authorize a strike against Ralphs and Albertsons, which also owns Vons, Pavilions and Safeway stores. Their labor contract expired March 6 and the current offer pr...