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18
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Sandra McDonald

    Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 9 race: Ugarte vs. Mazariegos (opens the original)

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    See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred For the first time since 1963, a politician who is not Black will represent a large swath of South Los Angeles on the City Council. Curren Price, who has held the District 9 seat for 13 years, is terming out. Jose Ugarte and Estuardo Mazariegos, who are vying to replace him in the November election, are Latino immigrants who arrived in the U.S. undocumented as children. The 9th District, which stretches from the Convention Center

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Sandra McDonald

    Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 3 race: Gaspar vs. Worth Girvan (opens the original)

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    See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Voters in the southwest San Fernando Valley will elect a new representative to the Los Angeles City Council on Nov. 3, and it will be either businessman Tim Gaspar or local government veteran Barri Worth Girvan — the top vote-getters in the June primary for the 3rd District council seat held since 2013 by Bob Blumenfield, who is termed out. The candidates are campaigning on issues including improving public safety, reducing homel

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Sandra McDonald

    Your guide to L.A. City Charter Amendment EE: City Council meetings, ethics and elections (opens the original)

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    See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Most Los Angeles City Council members would rather not be required to meet three days a week. But for that to happen, they will need to get permission from their bosses — that is, the city’s voters. Amendment EE on the Nov. 3 ballot would allow the council to meet once a week instead of three times, as now required under the city charter. The council voted 12-0 to put the measure on the ballot, with Councilmembers Heather Hutt, C

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Sandra McDonald

    D.A. announces criminal charges against Lake Hughes animal rescuer (opens the original)

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    See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Authorities on Friday filed 35 felony and misdemeanor counts against a Lake Hughes woman they allege housed rescue animals in inhumane and unsanitary conditions. Christine De Anda, 57, is facing 12 felony counts of animal cruelty, two felony counts of grand theft of labor and 21 misdemeanors related to animal cruelty and failure to provide proper care, according to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman. Prosecutors are as

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Sandra McDonald

    Some activists want dogs taken away from Skid Row homeless. The city says it's complicated (opens the original)

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    This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred In the heart of Skid Row on a hot summer afternoon, Amber Willard pushed a skinny brown and white pit bull named Athena on a rolling office chair. Victoriah Bech Parker, founder of the Starts With One Today animal rescue group, offered the dog a bowl of wet food. “You don’t look too good,” Bech Parker cooed as she bent down to pet Athena with a

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