Damian Dovarganes

FILE – A California National Guardsmen stands to protect federal buildings, June 10, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo Damian Dovarganes, File)

Los Angeles mayor celebrates ‘retreat’ as Pentagon ends deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in city

By Julie Watson, David Klepper, and others

California Democratic state Sen. María Elena Durazo speaks at a worker strike.

Burned out mental health workers in California are walking off the job, demanding better pay and work-life balance

By Damian Dovarganes and The Associated Press

A collection of bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbons are seen on the top shelf right, among other fine whiskies at the “Far Bar,” located in the historic Far East Building in the heart of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Buttery, smooth, oaky. These are characteristics of the best bourbons, and a growing cult of aficionados is willing to pay an astonishing amount of money for these increasingly scarce premium spirits — and even bend or break laws. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Bourbon craze has gotten so frenzied that single shots of premium American hootch are going for $200—and people are committing crimes to get some

By Andrew Selsky, Damian Dovarganes, and others