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The city of Los Angeles would start charging business and property owners of illegal pot shops for the costs associated with shutting off their utilities under a motion approved Tuesday by a City Council committee.

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to investigate ways to curb the sale of flavored tobacco products to youth and young adults and study how other cities are tackling the issue.

Since becoming one of the first major metropolitan fire departments to have a significant drone program and conducting its first aerial mission during the 2017 Skirball fire, the Los Angeles Fire Department has used the devices in at least 175 incident-related missions, according to a report presented Tuesday to the Board of Fire Commissioners.

All Los Angeles restaurants would be banned from giving customers plastic straws by 2021 under a proposal backed Tuesday by a City Council committee.

The head of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control on Tuesday defended the agency’s cleanup efforts around a shuttered battery recycling plant in Vernon, while also assuring a city council committee that the work will be speeding up now that some bureaucratic hurdles have been cleared.

More public electric vehicle charging stations may be coming to Los Angeles, after a City Council committee signed off Monday on financing for the program.

A City Council committee bypassed voting on whether comedian Bob Hope’s Toluca Lake home should be designated a historical monument Tuesday and advanced a motion to the full council without making a recommendation.

A City Council Committee will begin investigating Tuesday the impact President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration had on Los Angeles International Airport.

The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday that bars employers in Los Angeles from asking job applicants to disclose their criminal records during the initial stages of the recruitment process.

A joint City Council committee today backed a sidewalk repair plan that calls for the city to cover the cost of the first repair, then return the responsibility for future fixes back to the property owner.