Friday, June 26

LA County sheriff race features 8 candidates, differing visions for LASD

Eight candidates – including an incumbent and his predecessor – are running to lead the country’s largest sheriff department in the June 2 primary election. The candidates, all current or former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, are running on differing approaches to homelessness, immigration enforcement and how to manage the department’s billion-dollar budget. Read more...

Photo: A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department car is parked alongside a street. Eight candidates are running to lead the department in the June 2 primary election. (Michael Gallagher/Assistant Photo editor)


Los Angeles mayoral contenders offer competing visions for city’s future

Incumbent Karen Bass and 13 challengers are running for Los Angeles mayor. Voters will choose the top two candidates in the June 2 primary election to advance to a November runoff, unless a candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the primary and automatically wins the office. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles City Hall is pictured. Voters will cast ballots for LA mayor in the June 2 primary. (Daily Bruin file photo)


LA ballot measures could increase taxes on billionaires, hotels, sales

This post was updated May 31 at 8:36 p.m. Four measures seeking to raise taxes will appear on Los Angeles’s June 2 ballot. The measures, if passed, would subsidize LA County’s public health system amid federal funding cuts and fill in tax gaps for unlicensed cannabis businesses and online travel companies. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles City Hall is pictured. Four measures seeking to raise taxes will appear on Los Angeles’s June 2 ballot. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)


UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive

UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images and flyers on an online archive called Power from the Past. Read more...

Photo: (Rachel Kristen Lee Yokota/Daily Bruin staff)


LA County sheriff candidate seeks to reinstate ICE cooperation program

State legislation has prohibited California police agencies from participating in federal immigration enforcement operations since 2018 – but a Los Angeles County sheriff candidate wants to change that. Read more...

Photo: A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department vehicle is parked under a tree. A candidate for LA County sheriff wants to reinstate a program that allows local police to collaborate with immigration enforcement officers. (Michael Gallagher/Assistant Photo editor)


Typhus cases rise in LA, precautions recommended for students, community

This post was updated May 20 at 10:52 a.m. Flea borne typhus cases in Los Angeles County have reached an all-time high, according to an April report by LA County public health officials. Read more...

Photo: The David Geffen School of Medicine is pictured. Experts from the School of Medicine discuss possible causes and prevention techniques for the rise in typhus cases. (Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)