The California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to review an appellate ruling in the state’s favor compelling the city of Huntington Beach to comply with the state’s affordable housing requirements.

Huntington Beach lost another round in its legal battle to resist the state’s requirements for affordable housing, officials said Thursday. The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to review an ...

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Generative artificial intelligence can now counterfeit reality at an industrial scale. Deepfakes—photographs, videos and audio tracks that use AI to create convincing but entirely fabricated ...

As surging copper wire thefts are leaving many Los Angeles communities in the dark, a new statewide metal theft law set to kick in next year is aimed at recyclers who buy the stolen metal. The Sixth ...

A California court recently struck down Redondo Beach’s nearly decade-long housing plan when it upheld a local developer’s challenge of the city’s home-building blueprint. The California Courts of ...

If you’ve ever been startled while watching a show on a streaming service that was interrupted by an unreasonably loud commercial and thought to yourself, that should be illegal, soon it will be. At ...

The mere display of a gun is seen by many as an act of aggression, an implied threat. That’s why Florida made it illegal in 1987 to walk around with a handgun on your hip or a rifle slung over your ...