The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a motion to explore the county’s ability to provide treatment to homeless individuals with serious mental illness. The motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Mark Ridley-Thomas directs the Department of Mental Health to work...

Following a recent death of a Los Angeles County resident potentially related to the use of e-cigarettes, the county Department of Public Health is issuing a warning to residents about the use of these devices as potentially harmful to proper lung function. To date, there have been 12 reports of vaping-associated...

The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District has confirmed 11 additional mosquito samples positive for West Nile virus, bringing the number of positive samples within the district’s service area to 25 this year. Positive samples were collected in four new areas — Montebello, Santa...

The Southern California Association of Governments, or SCAG, is looking to reach a more reasonable determination of regional housing needs by objecting to the state’s assertion that said 1.34 million units are needed by 2029 across six counties, which includes the city of Santa Clarita. Instead, SCAG’s...

A specially equipped and highly trained 16-member water rescue team from the Los Angeles County Fire Department was deployed to the East Coast on Tuesday to assist in Hurricane Dorian rescues. The team is part of California Task Force 2 (CA-TF2), Urban Search & Rescue. They began traveling to the...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has published the agenda for their Tuesday, Sept. 3 meeting starting at 1 p.m. The meeting will be streamed live here. Among other items, the Supervisors will consider: There will also be a closed session to consider the pending County of Los Angeles v. Sheriff...

New positive samples of mosquitos infected with West Nile Virus has been discovered in Lakewood and Reseda, the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District reported Friday. Mosquito samples infected with West Nile virus have been collected from 13 cities in the district so far in 2019. No infected...

Los Angeles County Fire Department officials and firefighters on Friday marked the 10th anniversary of the deaths of two firefighters who were battling the Station Fire. Here’s more from the LACoFD’s social media: “Ten years ago on Sunday, August 30, 2009, Los Angeles County Fire Captain...

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA, the leading homeless agency tasked with connecting people living on the streets of Los Angeles to shelter and services, has failed to meet important goals and has become an inefficient reactive force to the homeless crisis, according...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health wants to identify people who are at risk for the measles virus and may have been exposed to a non-resident person with measles who traveled to the county while infectious. Other people may have been exposed to measles since public locations were visited...