The 13.2-million-member AFL-CIO will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its formation at its convention that begins in Anaheim Monday by inaugurating a series of programs that union leaders say could add hundreds of thousands--perhaps millions--of associate members to organized labor's ranks.
Victims of a 1981 fire that killed eight people and injured 198 others at the Las Vegas Hilton agreed Tuesday to a $22.8-million settlement from more than 40 defendants.
The Burbank City Council on Tuesday is expected to give formal approval to yet another in a long series of delays in construction of the Towncenter shopping mall, a project that has caused city officials frustration for more than a decade.
Troublesome, sometimes painful injections of insulin that diabetics endure each day might be a thing of the past if tests on an insulin nasal spray are successful, a company said Monday.
City Council members Tuesday gave tentative approval to an ordinance to regulate smoking but voted down a motion to ban smoking in the council chambers.
The organizer of Justiceville, a Skid Row shantytown shut down twice by police earlier this year, said Saturday that he wants to set up hygiene centers for the homeless on vacant land throughout Los Angeles.
Under pressure to find solutions to overcrowding, the Los Angeles school board spelled out details Monday of a proposal to convert nearly all schools to year-round operation.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency was given permission Thursday to dump treated ground water from the Stringfellow acid pits into Orange County's sewer system after test samples showed only minute traces of heavy metals, authorities said.
A hearing on Bermite's request to continue burning explosive waste at its plant in Saugus has been put off for two months at the company's request, meaning that Bermite will not be able to burn waste after its current variance expires Friday.
A Los Angeles brokerage firm has applied for regulatory approval to increase its 9.8% equity stake in Great American First Savings Bank.
After an emotional and bitter debate, a legislative subcommittee on Monday night rejected a bill that would require pregnant minors to get parental permission before obtaining abortions, unless they could persuade a judge that they were "sufficiently mature" to make the decision themselves.
Averting a possible walkout, union workers at two Teledyne Ryan plants in San Diego voted Sunday to accept a new three-year contract with the company, a union official said.
Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates won authorization from the Board of Supervisors Tuesday to hire 101 more employees to cope with jail expansion, but he also got a warning that "non-essential" programs in his office may be cut to help pay the cost.
St. John's Hospital nurse Robin A.
Trimedyne Inc. of Santa Ana said it has received Food and Drug Administration approval to begin marketing its Optilase-Yag laser system for treatment of tumors and other conditions involving blockage of the gastrointestinal and urological systems.
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Public television station KOCE's request for a $25,000 matching grant was approved Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors.
The Los Angeles City Council Monday tentatively approved a $2.36-billion 1986-87 budget that includes restoring the positions of two deputy police chiefs that the council eliminated in a reduction of police brass five years ago.
The Legislature voted Friday to place $1.3 billion in education and clean water bonds on the Nov. 4 ballot but--in a heated election-year battle--rejected a toxics cleanup bond issue sought by Gov.