L.A. Unified Turns to Insider for Superintendent
The Los Angeles Unified School District has a new superintendent. After a high-profile nationwide search, it went with an insider, Michelle King. The move marks a shift for the nation's second-largest school district. Like others around the state, for about a decade it has recruited outsiders, some of whom were not career educators.
SoCalGas Tries to Capture Methane in Latest Attempt to Plug Porter Ranch Leak
For nearly three months, natural gas has been pouring out of a faulty well in Los Angeles County's Aliso Canyon storage field -- and it could take two more months to contain it. Everyone wants to stop the leak. But doing so is proving complicated.