LOS ANGELES — Living high up in the Hollywood Hills, Peter and Nanci Ellis think of their landline as a lifeline. Most days, cellphone service in their Los Feliz Oaks home near Griffith Park is so spotty that they rely on their traditional phone for medic... See more
As primary voters head to the polls Tuesday to determine which candidates will face off in November to become California’s governor and Los Angeles’ mayor, both races are wide open, with a new crop of candidates challenging the Democratic status quo. For ... See more
suits up as Batman,enters City Hall and leads the people to overthrow a cabal of corrupt, out-of-touch progressives intent on destroying the city. Then he is Luke Skywalker.Dressed in a Jedi robe, he swoops through the city on an Imperial speeder bike, as... See more
LOS ANGELES — If a subway would work anywhere in modern Los Angeles, conventional wisdom said, it was along Wilshire Boulevard. In 1962, California's then-governor, Edmund G. Brown, stood in downtown L.A. in the shadow of a rotary drilling rig to support ... See more
But his sudden rise in California politics comes a decade and a half after he pitched the U.K. Conservative Party with a very different idea: Britain could learn a lot from the Golden State. Back in 2010, when Hilton was a top strategist during David Came... See more
