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Council backs L.A. fast-food worker scheduling protections as businesses complain of tight margins

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance to extend Fair Work Week scheduling rules to fast-food workers, adding predictable shifts and paid labor-rights training for tens of thousands of employees.

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L.A.'s record-level humidity can make you sick. How to survive the misery

Officials are sounding alarms about the potential health impacts related to this week's oppressive humidity and intense heat, that's only expected to rise, across Southern California.

WATCH: David Muir shares how University of Colorado Boulder marked freshmen's move-in day 

As millions of Americans families send their children back to school, the University of Colorado Boulder marked the momentous occasion with a heartwarming gesture for incoming students. 

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9/11 air records released after years of fights against City Hall

First responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on and immediately after the 9/11 attacks were likely exposed to dangerous toxins, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

Trial begins for nurse accused in fiery South L.A. car crash that left six dead

Prosecutors say Nicole Linton reached speeds of more than 131 mph when she careened into a South L.A. intersection in 2022, causing a wreck that killed six people, including an unborn baby. Her defense team says she had a seizure.