California

The Los Angeles City Council Friday agreed to increase wages for city bus drivers, mechanics and utility workers. The council voted 11-0 in support of the matter without discussion. Council members Curren Price, Nithya Raman, Monica Rodriguez and Katy Yaroslavsky were absent during the vote. On Wednesday, the council’s Transportation Committee voted 4-0 in favor of increasing the

The Israeli military said Friday that it has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission, saying they had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement. The findings of a retired general’s investigation into the Monday

When millions of dollars are stolen from the place where the money is supposed to be the safest, there is no shortage of questions, even from the people working at the company guarding the cash. “It’s just mind-blowing that you would never suspect it. How? Why, you know? It’s just I’m still trying to process

The Powerball jackpot just keeps growing! No one matched Wednesday night’s numbers, however, two tickets worth $1.6 million were sold in southern California. The California Lottery reported that two tickets sold in San Dimas and Oxnard matched 5 of 6 numbers. Winner winner chicken dinner! You just won the lottery, but do you know what

World Central Kitchen demanded an independent investigation into the Israeli strikes that killed seven of its staff in Gaza, as Israel faced growing isolation Wednesday over the deaths of six foreign aid workers and a Palestinian driver helping deliver desperately needed food to isolated and starving residents. In a statement issued Thursday, the international food

A handful of street vendors in Los Angeles are pushing back against what they say is discrimination after they’ve been cited by the city over their work. Street vendors who have spoken with NBC4 say they’ve been cited before and even after Mayor Karen Bass signed the Sidewalk Vending Ordinance, which provides an “open-air economy”

A Fontana community is reliving the trauma from a series of deadly events in 2022 that started with a man allegedly killing his estranged wife and kidnapping his 15-year-old daughter and ended with a violent shootout with authorities. Newly released video shows the moment Savannah Graziano, who was abducted by her father, Anthony John Graziano,

An estimated $1.09 billion Powerball jackpot that ranks as the 9th largest in U.S. lottery history will be up for grabs Wednesday night. The Powerball jackpot has been growing for more than three months, reflecting the long odds of 1 in 292.2 million of winning the top prize. Since the last player won the jackpot

A house surrounded with mountains of trash has residents in the Los Angeles Fairfax neighborhood concerned. The front lawn of the property, located on Martel Avenue, is covered with plastic bags filled with trash and other disposable items, reaching well above ground level. The garbage piles are also stacked up on the side yards and

A Senate committee has asked three major private-equity firms for information on how they run or staff hospital emergency departments to see if private equity’s management of a large share of the nation’s ERs has harmed patients, NBC News exclusively reports. Led by its chairman, Sen. Gary Peters, D.-Mich., the inquiry by the Homeland Security and Governmental

Powerball’s most recent billion-dollar sweepstakes continues. The Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $1.09 billion for Wednesday’s drawing after no one won the $1 billion grand prize on Monday. Wednesday’s jackpot will come with an estimated $527.3 million one-time cash payment option in lieu of the larger sum being paid out with 30 payments

Photography enthusiasts in Los Angeles mourn the man behind the camera store, Samy Kamienowicz, founder of Samy’s Camera. The iconic LA store welcomed photographers of all levels from professionals to beginners. Employees and customers remember Kamienowicz as just another guy with a love for photography. “People ask, ‘Is there a Samy?” said Juan Gonzalez, assistant

El Segundo announced Monday the appointment of Saul Rodriguez as the new chief of police for the city. Rodriguez, whose term of office will begin on April 8, will succeed police Chief Jaime Bermudez, who retired today, according to El Segundo City Manager Darrell George. “Today, the city is gaining a leader known for his

The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend. In a Saturday announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes for about 7.6

Sheriff’s deputies in East Los Angeles shot and killed a man connected to an alleged domestic assault, authorities said Sunday. Deputies were dispatched at about 11:50 p.m. Saturday to the 1500 block of North Herbert, just north of Interstate 10 and east of downtown Los Angeles, regarding a domestic assault call, the Los Angeles County

In honor of the late labor leader’s birthday, the Los Angeles region will observe César Chávez Day on Sunday, and celebrate his lasting legacy. Born on March 31, 1927, Chávez was a farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who alongside Dolores Hureta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United

Several families were forced out of their homes Saturday evening after an apartment complex in Lomita caught fire, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The structure fire was reported just before 7 p.m. at an apartment complex on the 2100 block of Palos Verdes Drive. There, a three-alarm blaze ripped through several units

More bands of showers are making their way to Southern California as a spring storm delivers measurable rain, mountain snow and the chance for thunderstorms this Easter weekend. Already much of the Southland has been drenched with roughly an inch of rain as regional mountains have become coated with snow at their highest elevation. These

Authorities responded to reports of an allegedly armed man barricaded inside a home in Santa Clarita early Saturday.  The Los Angeles County Sheriff´s Department responded to a home on the 25500 block of Springbrook Avenue at about 5:30 a.m. It was unclear what the man was wanted for.  Anyone with information about the suspect was

Three people who were held hostage for hours in a nightclub in the central town of Ede were released Saturday, police said, but they added that the “situation is not over.” Gelderland Police announced the hostage release in a message on X, formerly Twitter. They gave no further details about whether more hostages remained in