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Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley talks during a news conference at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in the West Carson area of Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

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LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press
Fri,02/21/25-1:38PM , 140 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six weeks after the start of the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential blaze and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall over responsibility for the devastation.
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Visitors to the Santa Monica pier look out at smoke from a wildfire in the Pacific Palisades blows over the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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Far from wildfire flames, residents of sunny Los Angeles go about their lives in disquiet and fear
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press
Thu,01/09/25-5:16PM , 243 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pedestrians shuffled by the famed Chateau Marmont hotel, customers queued up at Starbucks on Sunset Boulevard and car horns bleated at gridlocked intersections. But overhead, shadowing the usual bustling Los Angeles scene, a blackish dome of wildfire smoke turned daybreak into an eerie twilight.
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Takeaways from AP's story on inefficient tech slowing efforts to get homeless people off the streets
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press
Sat,07/27/24-11:09PM , 55 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is the nation’s epicenter of homelessness, where more than 45,000 people live in weather-beaten tent encampments and rusting RVs. But even in the state that is home to Silicon Valley, technology has not kept up with the long-running crisis.
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Bakersfield Assemblyman Vince Fong addresses supporters March 9, 2024, in Bakersfield, Calif. Fong and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, both Republicans, are vying for the vacant 20th Congressional District seat in the state's Central Valley farm belt. That's the seat formerly held by Kevin McCarthy. (John Donegan/The Bakersfield Californian via AP, File)

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California lawmaker Vince Fong wins special election to finish ousted House Speaker McCarthy’s term
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - AP Political Writer
Tue,05/21/24-12:03AM , 143 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vince Fong, a California State Assembly member backed by former President Donald Trump, won a special election Tuesday to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S.
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