Rebecca Ellis covers Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered Portland city government for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Ellis wrote for the Miami Herald, freelanced for the Providence Journal and reported as a Kroc fellow at NPR in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Brown University in 2018. Ellis was a finalist for the Livingston Awards in 2022 for her investigation into abuses within Portland’s private security industry and in 2024 for an investigation into sexual abuse inside L.A. County’s juvenile halls.
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The settlement includes nearly 7,000 claims, most of which involve alleged abuse from the 1980s through the 2000s.
Leaders of SEIU Local 721 said the two-day strike started at 7 p.m. Monday, sparked by what they characterized as a failure by the county to fairly negotiate a new contract.
The strike is set to last until 7 p.m. Wednesday. Libraries and some health clinics will be closed, though hospitals will remain open. Wildfire beach debris cleanup may be paused.
L.A. County unions representing first responders say the praise they’re getting from politicians isn’t matched by offers at the bargaining table.
Lawyers suing L.A. County over childhood sexual abuse say they found thousands of documents the county should have turned over.
Both L.A. County and city are saddled with billions in unexpected costs. How come only one faces a $1-billion deficit?
Long before the evacuation order came, law enforcement officers knew the Eaton fire was spreading in west Altadena, dozens of 911 call logs reveal.
Costs from the Eaton and Palisades fires include soil testing, debris removal and beach cleanup, Fesia Davenport, L.A. County’s chief executive, said Monday.
The supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to create a “unified permitting authority,” which they say will cut through county bureaucracy to speed up the approval process.