Tag : California

Tag: California

Meet the California firefighter ‘super commuters’ traveling 2,000 miles for work

As cost of living continues to rise in the Golden state, some first responders have moved to Oregon, Arizona, Texas, Alabama, Florida – even Alaska“Is it OK if I talk from the car?” asked Kyle Conforti, a 40-year-old firefighter who works at the Oran...

‘Out of reach’: median home price in Los Angeles nears $1m

House prices have increased more than 30% in five years in the state’s largest city, which has at least 50,000 people living outsideThe median price for a home in Los Angeles, California’s largest city, will soon hit $1m, as soaring housing costs fue...

Los Angeles: hotel workers’ strike ignites backlash among academics

Academics are boycotting their annual meeting after they say leadership spurned a union request to move online or cancelThe union representing thousands of hotel workers on strike in Los Angeles is clashing with a group of political scientists over a...

Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Canadian musician was found guilty last year for three felonies related to the shooting which injured rapper in footMusician Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for the shooting of fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.Lanez...

White supremacist Robert Rundo extradited from Romania to US to face charges

Rise Above Movement co-founder to face charges in Los Angeles in relation to violent clashes with anti-fascist protesters in 2017Robert Rundo, the influential American neo-Nazi and co-founder of the now-defunct Rise Above Movement, was extradited to...

Body found in plastic barrel floating in water at a Malibu beach

A lifeguard brought the container ashore and opened it to discover a Black man’s body as homicide detectives investigate the deathA lifeguard found a man’s body in a barrel at a southern California beach on Monday, after seeing the container floating...

Dry cleaners, restaurants, hotels: the ripple effects of Hollywood’s strike

As the actors’ and writers’ strikes settle in, restaurants, cleaners and other businesses prepare for a financial downturnAt first glance, not much seems amiss at Milt & Edie’s dry cleaners, a stone’s throw from the Warner Bros studio where a lon...

Leggy new star discovered four inches under Los Angeles: the thread millipede

As long as a paperclip and as thin as pencil lead, Illacme socal is no ordinary SoCal denizen – it uses 486 legs to walk wherever it goesThe city of angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honor: the...

Julian Sands’ cause of death undetermined due to condition of his body

Police say finding is ‘common when dealing with cases of this type’ a month after actor’s body was recovered in California mountainsJulian Sands’ cause of death has been deemed undetermined due to the condition of his body, six months after the Briti...

Los Angeles developer gets six-year term for $500,000 bribe to councilman

Dae Young Lee paid José Huizar and his assistant to help resolve a labor organizations appeal blocking development of residencesA real estate developer was sentenced on Friday to six years in federal prison for paying $500,000 in bribes to a Los Ange...

Hollywood actors walk out of Oppenheimer premiere as strike action starts – video report

The union representing Hollywood actors formally announced a strike on Thursday, joining writers who have already been on strike for weeks. The action by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra), which b...