• Whose UC is it? — still a valid question

    Whose UC is it? — still a valid question
    As a new school year approaches on the nine campuses of the University of California, it’s fair for parents of prospective students to ask once again, as many have for at least the last eight years, whose UC will it be?
    The question first arose during the Great Recession that began about nine years ago, a time when UC began accepting more and more out-of-state and foreign students to help make up for funding cuts inflicted by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators.
    Over 12 y
  • Would you pay $1,500 for dinner? Noma’s Los Angeles residency tests dining norms

    Would you pay $1,500 for dinner? Noma’s Los Angeles residency tests dining norms
    It is the gastronomic equivalent of a Taylor Swift residency at the Forum — exclusive, impossibly expensive and the most sought-after ticket in town.
    Copenhagen’s renowned Noma, a restaurant that has claimed the title of “Best in the World” five times over along with three Michelin sparklers to boot, is officially landing in Los Angeles this March for a 16-week residency in Silver Lake. But as the countdown to the Jan. 26 booking release begins, a different kind of conver
  • Real estate news: 54-year-old Buena Park townhomes sell for $7.8 million

    Real estate news: 54-year-old Buena Park townhomes sell for $7.8 million
    The Knott Townhouses, a 28-unit townhome community in Buena Park, sold Dec. 30 for $9.8 million or $350,000 unit. Built in 1972, the four-building complex at 7051 9th St. got 11 offers when it listed, according to the Matthews brokerage, which represented the seller. (Photo courtesy of Matthews)
    This 28-unit townhome community in Buena Park sold Dec. 30 for $9.8 million or $350,000 unit. Built in 1972, The Knott Townhouses at 7051 9th St. got 11 offers when it listed, according to the Matthews b
  • HOA Homefront: The Business Judgment Rule isn’t a blank check

    HOA Homefront: The Business Judgment Rule isn’t a blank check
    The Business Judgment Rule protects directors from personal liability if the board errs, and courts have repeatedly given wide deference to HOA decisions made within the BJR.
    However, BJR protections are not unlimited.
    Deference
    Courts normally defer to HOA boards following the BJR, as the State Supreme Court said in 1999 in Lambden v. La Jolla Shores. In the Lambden case, a homeowner contended the board pursued the wrong response to termite problems and sued the HOA.
    The court held that so long
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  • Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland

    Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a Congressional delegation met Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers in Copenhagen and sought to lower tensions.
    Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island bein
  • Criminal investigation raises key question: Whether Chair Powell leaves Fed in May

    Criminal investigation raises key question: Whether Chair Powell leaves Fed in May
    By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has brought heightened attention to a key drama that will play out at the central bank in the coming months: Will Powell leave the Fed when his term as chair ends, or will he take the unusual step of remaining a governor?
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  • California insurance chief keeps ‘chin up’ ahead of FAIR Plan, policy reforms

    California insurance chief keeps ‘chin up’ ahead of FAIR Plan, policy reforms
    A few weeks after California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara rattled consumer groups with a proposed overhaul to the insurance-rate review process, the embattled state executive ended up at his parent’s home in East Los Angeles to catch his breath away from a chorus of calls urging him to resign.
    The proposal in September capped a tough year for the commissioner, who was grappling with upheaval in California’s home insurance market and the aftermath and recovery from the January
  • 31,000 healthcare workers give notice of strike at Kaiser on Jan. 26

    31,000 healthcare workers give notice of strike at Kaiser on Jan. 26
    Nearly three months after 31,000 healthcare workers ended a five-day strike against Kaiser Permanente in the Western U.S. without a labor agreement, a second walkout is planned on Jan. 26 at medical facilities in California and Hawaii after negotiations stalled in December.
    The United Nurses Associations of California / Union of Health Care Professionals (UNSC / UHCP) said Thursday, Jan. 15, that it delivered a 10-day notice to strike against Kaiser facilities beginning Jan. 26. At issue in the
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  • Homebuying burden quadrupled in California’s low-price counties

    Homebuying burden quadrupled in California’s low-price counties
    Even the least expensive parts of California have become unaffordable for homebuyers.
    My trusty spreadsheet reviewed homebuying affordability data from Attom, which tracks the typical house hunter’s financial challenges dating to 2005 in 36 California counties. By comparing home values, mortgage rates and household incomes, Attom determined the share of income devoured by a home purchase.
    Splitting those 36 counties into three slices helps show how the homebuying burden has chang
  • Stocks waver on Wall Street and remain near records

    Stocks waver on Wall Street and remain near records
    By DAMIAN J. TROISE, Associated Press Business Writer
    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered in morning trading on Wall Street Friday as the first week of corporate earnings season closes out with markets trading near record levels.
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  • Inside the battle for the future of addiction medicine

    Inside the battle for the future of addiction medicine
    By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News
    NEW ORLEANS — Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who’d been battling addiction for decades. Chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street.
    “Many of my patients are messy, the ones that don’t know if they want to stop using drugs or not,” said Stevens, a primary care and addiction medicine doctor.
    While other doctors avoided these patients, Stevens
  • Cuba launches mass demonstration to decry US attack on Venezuela and demand Maduro’s release

    Cuba launches mass demonstration to decry US attack on Venezuela and demand Maduro’s release
    By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ, Associated Press
    HAVANA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Cubans demonstrated Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the U.S. government release former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
    Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel marches during a rally to protest the killing of Cuban officers during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Ha
  • Violent crime arrests among Orange County’s kids have doubled. Should we worry?

    Violent crime arrests among Orange County’s kids have doubled. Should we worry?
    The good news: Arrests among Orange County’s kids have dropped dramatically over the past decade.
    The not-so-good news: Much of that is due to changes in the law. Also, over the past few years, the trend is reversing.
    Violent crime arrests more than doubled between 2022 and 2024, according to data from the California Department of Justice. Property offense arrests were up nearly 55%.
    Overall, during that recent window, felony arrests of juveniles for serious crimes were up 64%, while less-
  • Car shopping trends and tips for 2026 from Edmunds

    Car shopping trends and tips for 2026 from Edmunds
    By JOSH JACQUOT
    In recent years, a shortage of vehicles, rising prices, and high borrowing costs have made it challenging for some people to purchase a new or used vehicle. Thankfully, the automotive market is shifting in ways that could be beneficial if you’re planning to buy a vehicle in the next few months. The auto experts at Edmunds have identified five car shopping trends that you can expect to see in 2026 and have advice on how to take advantage of them to get the best deal.
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  • How the White House and governors want to fix AI-driven power shortages and price spikes

    How the White House and governors want to fix AI-driven power shortages and price spikes
    By MICHELLE L. PRICE, MARC LEVY and JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press
    The White House and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the operator of the mid-Atlantic power grid to take urgent steps to boost energy supply and curb price hikes, holding a Friday event aimed at addressing a rising concern among voters about the enormous amount of power used for artificial intelligence ahead of elections later this year.
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  • Another suggestion for a veterans’ burial place at the Great Park fails to land with Irvine leaders

    Another suggestion for a veterans’ burial place at the Great Park fails to land with Irvine leaders
    Another proposal for a veterans’ burial option at the Great Park was rejected this week by a divided Irvine City Council.
    Instead of a full-scale veterans cemetery in the Great Park, which for years had been discussed but failed to actualize, Councilmember James Mai was hoping that his colleagues would be interested in a city-run columbarium for burial urns, and the location could even be considered elsewhere within the city based on public feedback.
    The goal was to “find a balanced,
  • Cheaters are nabbed in the 91 Express Lanes 2 different ways

    Cheaters are nabbed in the 91 Express Lanes 2 different ways
    Q: Greetings Honk: While traveling in the 91 Express Lanes, in either direction, there is “3+ lane” that is less than a 1/4 mile long and looks to me to serve no purpose. What say you, Honk.
    – Mike Rowland, Long Beach
    A: Honk says that lane can save motorists some moola, Mike.
    Here is how it works:
    Drivers accompanied by two or more passengers should take that lane — telling the tollway that you deserve a break today.
    On the Orange County side of the tollway, there is a b
  • Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products

    Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products
    By KEN MORITSUGU and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press
    BEIJING (AP) — Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.
    Carney made the announcement after two days of meetings with Chinese leaders. He said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000 vehicles on Chinese EV exports to Canada, growing to about 70,000 over five years. China will reduce
  • Recent rainstorms translate to billions of gallons of water added to reservoirs

    Recent rainstorms translate to billions of gallons of water added to reservoirs
    A recent series of winter storms that dumped rain across Southern California and snow in the Sierra Nevada has recharged local reservoirs, leaving many water agency officials confident in their supplies and the state officially drought-free for the first time in a quarter century.
    The days of rain may have dampened some of the holiday season, but they also left 14 of the state’s 17 reservoirs filled to more than 70% capacity, with water officials hopeful for new storms still on the horizon
  • Steven Greenhut: Republicans now embrace ‘seamless garment’ of statism

    Steven Greenhut: Republicans now embrace ‘seamless garment’ of statism
    SACRAMENTO — Based on the troubling goings-on in Minneapolis, it’s hard to describe former GOP Rep. Justin Amash’s post on X as hyperbolic: “They’re building a police state right before our eyes — which will ultimately be deployed against conservative Christians and gun owners and those who refuse the jab — and a lot of ‘Republicans’ with Gadsden flags in their bios are like, ‘Yeah, FAFO!’”
    There’s no ho
  • NAMM Show turns 125: Music world’s largest annual trade event returns to Anaheim this week

    NAMM Show turns 125: Music world’s largest annual trade event returns to Anaheim this week
    The more some things change the more they stay the same for the NAMM Show, which this week celebrates its 125th anniversary as the world’s largest annual trade event for the creators, manufacturers, retailers and distributors of music instruments, equipment, technology, sound, lighting and recording gear.
    It will take place Tuesday through next Saturday, June 20-24, at the 1.8-million-square-foot Anaheim Convention Center — which has hosted the annual January event since 1976 &m
  • Defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing asks judge to disqualify prosecutors

    Defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing asks judge to disqualify prosecutors
    By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The 22-year-old Utah man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk is due back in court Friday as his attorneys seek to disqualify prosecutors in the case over an alleged conflict of interest.
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  • Legal questions swirl around FDA’s new expedited drug program, including who should sign off

    Legal questions swirl around FDA’s new expedited drug program, including who should sign off
    By MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press Health Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration commissioner’s effort to drastically shorten the review of drugs favored by President Donald Trump’s administration is causing alarm across the agency, stoking worries that the plan may run afoul of legal, ethical and scientific standards long used to vet the safety and effectiveness of new medicines.
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  • Where to find Martin Luther King Jr. tributes across Southern California

    Where to find Martin Luther King Jr. tributes across Southern California
    It all started with a dream.
    The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s impact is now felt everywhere, from politics and social justice movements to the arts.
    The African American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner known for his impassioned speeches, was assassinated in 1968.
    King would have turned 97 years old Thursday, Jan. 15. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, marked on the third Monday of January, honors his legacy, his message of non-violent fight for racial equality and freedom.
  • I fled the Los Angeles wildfires. Here’s what would help prevent future tragedies

    I fled the Los Angeles wildfires. Here’s what would help prevent future tragedies
    A year ago, Los Angeles was hit by two of the most destructive wildfires in California history—the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Fire in Altadena, which forced me to evacuate my family’s home. The fires killed 31 people, destroyed more than 15,000 structures, and were made worse by institutional and policy failures. Sadly, one year later, these issues persist, leaving Los Angeles and other California communities vulnerable to future disasters.
    The areas affected b
  • Taiwan hails its ‘best’ trade deal with US, as China protests

    Taiwan hails its ‘best’ trade deal with US, as China protests
    By TAIJING WU and SIMINA MISTREANU, Associated Press
    TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s premier on Friday hailed a new trade deal with the United States as the “best tariff deal” enjoyed by countries with trade surpluses with Washington, as meanwhile a Chinese official in Beijing condemned the accord.
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  • Are Trump’s supporters getting what they want from his second term? Here’s what a new poll shows

    Are Trump’s supporters getting what they want from his second term? Here’s what a new poll shows
    By STEVE PEOPLES, MIKE CATALINI, JESSE BEDAYN and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX, Associated Press
    NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a year into his second term, President Donald Trump’s work on the economy hasn’t lived up to the expectations of many people in his own party, according to a new AP-NORC survey.
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  • Prayer leader in Iran and the faithful call for executions over protests, a red line for Trump

    Prayer leader in Iran and the faithful call for executions over protests, a red line for Trump
    By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A hard-line cleric leading Friday prayers in Iran’s capital demanded the death penalty for protesters detained in a nationwide crackdown and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump, showing the hard-line rage gripping the Islamic Republic after the demonstrations.
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  • Santa Margarita girls basketball tops No. 1 JSerra in Trinity League opener

    Santa Margarita girls basketball tops No. 1 JSerra in Trinity League opener
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThere are nonleague games, and there are league games.
    Santa Margarita’s girls basketball team provided a reminder Thursday that the start of league creates a new season that can offer plenty of surprises.
    Sophomore forward Elle Palmer scored 20 points with 10 rebounds and senior guard Madi Lam added 13 points as the Eagles upset host JSerra 47-43 in the teams’ Trinity League opener.
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  • Cal State Fullerton’s comeback bid falls short against UC Davis

    Cal State Fullerton’s comeback bid falls short against UC Davis
    DAVIS — The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team whittled a 17-point second-half deficit to three points with a flurry of late 3-pointers, but the Titans’ comeback bid fell short in a 74-69 loss to UC Davis on Thursday night.
    Joshua Ward had 19 points, two steals and two blocked shots to pace Fullerton (8-11 overall, 3-4 Big West). Bryce Cofield added 13 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while Jaden Henderson contributed 11 points and two steals. Jefferson De La

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