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date: 2024-12-31, updated: 2024-12-31, from: The LAist
VIBEZ is a city-sponsored event providing a community for Angelenos in recovery or searching for a drug-free party.
date: 2024-12-31, updated: 2024-12-31, from: The LAist
The LAist education team this year worked to bring nuance to difficulties the state faces, and shine a light on solutions that can fly under the radar. Here’s some of what we learned along the way.
https://laist.com/news/education/california-education-schools-colleges-2024
date: 2024-12-31, updated: 2024-12-31, from: The LAist
Officials are warning visitors to be flexible and enjoy all parts of the national park, not just the known favorites.
date: 2024-12-31, updated: 2024-12-31, from: The LAist
Let’s take a moment to reflect on some of LAist’s best investigative and enterprise work of 2024.
https://laist.com/news/best-of-laist-editors-picks-top-stories-2024
date: 2024-12-31, updated: 2024-12-31, from: The LAist
The city of Sierra Madre’s float is one of just six floats that are independently built.
https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/diy-volunteers-help-decorate-rose-parade-float
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-30, from: The LAist
A new California law imposes harsher penalties for assaulting emergency room workers. It responds to rising attacks on health care workers, despite concerns from progressives and prison-reform advocates
https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/emergency-room-workers-attacks-new-ca-law-penalties
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-30, from: The LAist
Here’s what the latest research is saying about how it is spreading and how to keep yourself and your pets safe.
https://laist.com/news/health/bird-flu-protect-yourself-and-pets
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-30, from: The LAist
Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.
https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/actors-musicians-writers-and-artists-lost-2024
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-31, from: The LAist
Despite not having a ball that drops in the middle of town, L.A. and SoCal make pretty great New Year’s spots. There’s shockingly less traffic than you might expect, rideshares are plentiful, and Metro is free.
https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/what-to-do-on-new-years-eve-in-la-orange-county-socal
date: 2024-12-30, from: City of Santa Clarita
Each month will feature a different hike location! Kick-off 2025 out in the open space with family and friends! Join us each month for guided Community Hikes led by City staff at different trailheads and parks throughout the City. These hikes are the perfect way to stay healthy, connect with nature and even make […]
The post Connect, Explore and Hike With Your Community appeared first on City of Santa Clarita.
https://santaclarita.gov/blog/2024/12/30/connect-explore-and-hike-with-your-community/
date: 2024-12-30, from: City of Santa Clarita
Join Us for the Return of the 13th Annual Polar Plunge What better way to ring in the New Year than by taking the plunge into the icy waters at the Santa Clarita Aquatic Center, presented by Kaiser Permanente. The City of Santa Clarita is excited to announce the return of the 13th annual Polar […]
The post Take the Plunge Into the New Year at the Santa Clarita Aquatic Center appeared first on City of Santa Clarita.
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-31, from: The LAist
Huntington Beach’s beloved libraries continue to stoke controversy.
https://laist.com/news/politics/voters-could-get-a-say-on-privatizing-libraries-in-huntington-beach
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-30, from: The LAist
Californians accused of certain drug and retail theft offenses face longer sentences under Proposition 36. A batch of new crime laws takes effect Jan. 1, 2025.
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-30, from: The LAist
Enjoy the Rose Parade and related events in Pasadena, kick your year off with a guided hike in a California state park, try Zaytinya’s new L.A. location and more of the best things to do.
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-30, from: The LAist
Two Congressional reports make clear that, with increasingly frequent hurricanes, floods, and fires, “the model of insurance as it stands right now isn’t working.”
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/new-data-climate-insurance-crisis
date: 2024-12-30, updated: 2024-12-30, from: The LAist
New research shows what happens when cities add sidewalks and take other pedestrian-friendly steps.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/study-twins-america-walkable
date: 2024-12-30, from: the San Fernando Valley Sun/el Sol de Valle San Fernando
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Local officials were remembering former President Jimmy Carter today as news spread that Carter had died at age 100, after living longer than any other U.S. […]
The post Local Officials Praise Jimmy Carter After Former President’s Death at 100 appeared first on The San Fernando Valley Sun.
date: 2024-12-29, updated: 2024-12-29, from: The LAist
Carter was president from 1977 to 1981, but he was perhaps more famous for the life he led after he left office. He was one of the biggest advocates for peace, democracy and human rights.
https://laist.com/news/jimmy-carter-former-u-s-president-and-peace-activist-dies-at-100
date: 2024-12-29, updated: 2024-12-29, from: The LAist
People feared the computer glitch would mean “the end of the world as we know it.” Thankfully, Y2K didn’t live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
https://laist.com/news/y2k-seems-like-a-joke-now-but-in-1999-people-were-really-freaking-out
date: 2024-12-29, updated: 2024-12-29, from: The LAist
Big Lots said Friday it will be sold to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, a firm that specializes in distressed companies.
https://laist.com/news/big-lots-reaches-deal-to-keep-hundreds-of-u-s-stores-open
date: 2024-12-29, updated: 2024-12-29, from: The LAist
The new South Pasadena bottle shop Burden of Proof looks to foster community for those seeking alternative drinking options.
date: 2024-12-29, updated: 2024-12-29, from: The LAist
Local scuba divers work to clean up “ghost nets.”
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/volunteers-ocean-underwater-menace-ghost-net