DAMIAN DOVARGANES

Displaced tenant Heather McAlpine who lost her Altadena studio in the Eaton fire, stands inside her temporarily home in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
How LA wildfires are making an already tough rental market even worse
The Los Angeles wildfires wiped out thousands of homes, forcing families to find new places to live. Tenants who were just getting by before the fires now face a daunting search for a new home amid reports of soaring rent.
 
This image taken from video, shows a small plane about to crash into a commercial building in Fullerton, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (RUCCI FORGED via AP)
2 dead and 19 injured in Southern California plane crash
Police in Southern California say two people are dead after a small plane crashed through the roof of a sprawling furniture manufacturing building.
 
Mental health workers rally outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center as they begin an open-ended strike in Los Angeles Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Kaiser mental health workers go on strike in Southern California over staffing, workloads
More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing shortages.
 
Los Angeles police and Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors workers conduct a cleanup operation to remove homeless encampments at Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Officials clear homeless encampment at California state beach
Officials have cleared a growing homeless encampment at Dockweiler State Beach in Los Angeles. The cleanup operation Thursday was an effort organized by LA City Councilmember Traci Park and the county and comes more than a month after Gov.
 
In this aerial still image provided by KABC-TV, firefighters respond to the scene of an accident where a shuttle bus collided with a Metro light rail train on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. (KABC via AP)
Metro train collides with bus in downtown Los Angeles, injuring more than 50, 2 seriously
Officials say 55 people were hurt, two seriously, when a Metro light rail train and a University of Southern California shuttle bus collided in downtown Los Angeles.
 
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, joins former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during a news conference for the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California campaign for Keep The Law (SB 1137) in Inglewood, Calif., on Friday, March. 22, 2024. The law, if upheld, would require all oil or gas production facilities or wells within a health protection zone to comply with new regulations. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
California governor, celebrities and activists launch campaign to protect law limiting oil wells
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jane Fonda are calling on voters to keep a law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and hospitals as the oil industry fights to overturn it.
 
A local resident checks the damage to her neighbor's house after heavy rains and mud flows caused it to slide down from the hill in the Beverly Glen section of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours that caused hundreds of landslides, was moving out of the region after one final drenching Wednesday, but authorities warned of the continued threat of collapsing hillsides. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Southern Californians recount harrowing mudslides during deadly record-breaking storm
A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours that caused hundreds of landslides, is moving out of the region after a final drenching.
 
Kaiser Permanente workers carry protest signs outside the hospital during a strike in the Panorama City section of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Picketing has begun at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 workers who say understaffing is hurting patient care go on strike in five states and the District of Columbia. It marks the latest major labor unrest in the U.S. Kaiser Permanente is one of the country's larger insurers and health care system operators. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike
 
Vehicles cross over a flood control basin that has almost reached the street as Tropical Storm Hilary hits the area, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, in Palm Desert, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars
Deadly floodwaters have inundated streets along the length of Mexico’s arid Baja California, where Tropical Storm Hilary came ashore Sunday.
 
Striking hotel worker Tayra Dehart joins a rally outside the Intercontinental Hotel on Monday, July 3, 2023, in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Workers strike at major Southern California hotels over pay and benefits
Workers are picketing major Southern California hotels after walking off the job during the holiday weekend to demand better pay and benefits.