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Los Angeles, CA - April 21: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivers her State of the City address at LA City Hall on Monday, April 21, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

In Sacramento, Mayor Bass seeks state money to close nearly $1-billion budget gap

Bass is trying to close a nearly $1 billion shortfall and avoid laying off city workers.

January 2024 photo of the Santa Ynez Reservoir in Palisades that was obtained through a public records request. The reservoir will need to be drained again after more leaks were found.

Santa Ynez Reservoir in Palisades must be drained again after more leaks found

CARSON, CA - JANUARY 18: Jack Brandhorst is the owner of Red Rifle Ltd., a boutique gun store in Carson. A debate took place in Torrance over whether the store was able to open in the city. Eventually, his permit was denied. Photographed on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023 in Carson, CA. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Why Trump’s DOJ targeted L.A. County over gun permits — and who might be next

SANTA MONICA, CA, APRIL 19, 2025: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, center, chats with YMCA staff during an event by the 1Pali organization at Clover Park in Santa Monica to mark the 100 days since the Palisades fire, gathering Palisades residents for a day of community, healing, and honoring the strength of the Palisades neighborhood, on Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Bass proposes laying off about 1,650 city workers, a quarter of them civilians at LAPD

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - JANUARY 8, 2025 - - Fire fighters try to put out a structure fire, hoping to prevent the home next door from being destroyed in the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades on January 7, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Three months after Palisades fire, mayor proposes adding more than 200 LAFD jobs

In State of the City speech to a battered Los Angeles, Bass strikes hopeful tone

Five things to look out for in L.A. Mayor Karen Bass’ budget

Mayor Karen Bass weighs deep cuts, including layoffs, as L.A.’s challenges mount

Altadena suffered a ‘catastrophic failure.’ Did unincorporated status hurt fire response?

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San Quentin, CA, Monday, March 25, 2024 - A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin's Death Row. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at other prisons throughout the state. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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Chabria: Bringing the death penalty back to L.A. is politics and hubris, not justice

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a punishment his predecessor did not use.

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