A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it. [...]
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L.A. County's proposed earthquake rules would require certain older concrete buildings in unincorporated areas, and those owned by the county, to be retrofitted. [...]
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Columnist Frank Shyong first visited Focus Plaza as a seventh-grader with his family. He sees the mall's renovation as a symbol of Southern California's changing Chinese population. [...]
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In an area where there is little undeveloped land and neighbors are likely to push back at new housing, some see the declining malls as ideal places to build. [...]
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The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 2.88 percent last year, according to the government-sponsored mortgage-finance company Freddie Mac. [...]
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A study by the Harris County Commissioners Court found that Black-owned firms make up less than 1 percent of government and procurement contracts awarded in Harris County, a disparity the Greater Houston Black Chamber calls “unconscionable.” [...]
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