From 2006 to 2012, pharmaceutical manufacturers shipped 8 billion prescription opioids to California. The greatest amount went to the small county of Lake in northern California.
This expanded "summer recess" edition covers viable revenue-related proposed measures that impact local governments.
California’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% in June. San Mateo County has the lowest unemployment rate (2.2%). Imperial has the highest (18.6%).
Mono County’s next chief administrative officer hails all the way from the Rocky Mountains.
Over the past two years, MS-13 gang members have committed at least seven murders in the Los Angeles area, dumping the bodies of rival gang members in remote locations from Hollywood to the Malibu Hills. That’s according to a 78-page indictment against 22 people unsealed last week.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The department’s former professional standards and training division chief Alicia Ault resigned after 34 years with the LASD after receiving an "unethical" order.
“Every earthquake actually increases the probability of more earthquakes,” one geophysicist told the Los Angeles Times.
Regular readers of County News know there’s been nothing but drama between L.A. County and its sheriff’s department since Alex Villanueva took over in December.
Santa Clara County and San Francisco filed a lawsuit last week against the Trump administration over a new policy that could stymie legal immigration by those receiving public assistance and discou
Visitors to the 2019 L.A. County Fair can expect to see a larger security presence than in years past.
More than a thousand public retirees in California are earning pensions that exceed the federal limit of $220,000, according to data from CalPERS.