Proponents suggest supervisors could gain political capital by passing the ordinance instead of sending it to voters. If the measure passes, the county's registrar of voters anticipates legal ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. State lawmakers propose overhauling LA’s “mansion tax” by cutting rates on newer commercial properties to boost ...

In 1978, Proposition 13 cut property taxes to one percent of the taxable value and capped increases to the taxable value to just two percent a year, with reassessment occurring only for new ...

In Mountain View’s North Bayshore neighborhood, where land abutting Google’s headquarters comes at a premium and the average home is priced close to $2 million, a 100-unit affordable housing ...

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Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s Rebecca Ellis, with an assist from Julia Wick, giving you the latest on city and county government. L.A. County ...

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President Trump’s most recent executive order wades into a debate over how elite colleges should weigh grades and test scores versus the obstacles students have overcome. By Stephanie Saul Dana ...

A contentious bill that would phase out about half of Maui’s vacation rentals took a big step toward passage Thursday. The Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee voted 6-3 in support of ...

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In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a ...

The scale provided by systems such as Frontier is pretty much a necessity to do calculations like this, both in terms of parallel computational capacity and storage. It would take many millennia to ...