"Urban California has high incomes and tremendous inequality."

Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down the West Coast. Fires across the Los Angeles area have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Los Angeles Times / Getty Images) Los Angeles County is home to more Asian Americans than any other county in the United States. California is home to roughly 6 million Asians and ...

Los Angeles County’s baseline sales tax jumps from 9.75% to 10.25% following voter approval of Measure ER, pushing total tax rates in several local cities to 11% or higher. The voter-approved Measure ER is a temporary five-year general tax intended to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mud and debris from a fire-ravaged hillside covers Topanga Canyon Boulevard on Monday. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) (Brian van der Brug via Getty Images ...

Collective debt and collective guilt? The county's decision to begin meetings by acknowledging a debt to "exploited labor" follows well documented practice of "land acknowledgments." Those government-sponsored meetings do not appear to include recitation of the "Pledge of Allegiance" or singing the "Star-Spangled Banner.