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@laist.com Oct 10, 2026, 4:02 PM

Dave Grohl headlines Soundstage of Hope on Saturday, a Hollywood gala benefiting Hope the Mission and LA Mission.

🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5mu83
✍️ Kyle Chrise
📸 Scott Dudelson / Getty Images for Coachella

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Quote on showing love and care by serving a meal attributed to Dave Grohl.

Text on blue background about the Soundstage of Hope event on October 10 at 6:30 PM.

Text mentions 2018 Malibu fires and cooking for 500 people with smoker.

@laist.com Oct 10, 2026, 3:59 AM

Heavy El Niño rain could make driving riskier. Check your wipers, tires and lights now, and never drive through floodwaters.

🔗 Get your car ready: vist.ly/5msnh
✍️ Lucas Brady Woods
📸 David Swanson / AFP via Getty Images

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@laist.com Oct 10, 2026, 1:59 AM

The Los Angeles Unified School District’s restrictions on generative artificial intelligence have drawn mixed reactions from education experts and students.

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✍️ Mallika Seshadri | EdSource
📸 Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images

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@laist.com Oct 10, 2026, 12:59 AM

Metrolink, Southern California’s regional commuter rail service, is planning for major service cuts — slashing 29% of weekday trains and 40% of weekend trains. Those cuts could go into effect as soon as next month.

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✍️ Destiny Torres
📸 Courtesy Metrolink

A Metrolink train at a station with text about service cuts.

@laist.com Oct 10, 2026, 12:00 AM

New data shows Waymo’s robotaxis are crashing less often as they log more miles driven in Los Angeles. Experts recently joined LAist 89.3’s AirTalk with Larry Mantle.

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✍️ Nicolas Perez
📸 Mario Tama/Getty Images

Autonomous Waymo car parked on a street with people nearby.

Waymo robotaxis in Los Angeles with text discussing crash data.

@laist.com Oct 9, 2026, 10:09 PM

LAist reporter Jill Replogle was out at the Long Beach Peninsula watching high tides hit the boardwalk and the streets.

There's also storms and rain coming for SoCal this weekend.

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🎥 Jill Replogle, Joshua Letona

@laist.com Oct 9, 2026, 8:14 PM

As food costs rise and food assistance rules change, Koreatown and Pico Union groups are working to make groceries more accessible.

🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5mrrk
✍️ Hanna Kang | The LA Local
📸 Hanna Kang / The LA Local

People packing vegetables at a community event with text overlay about SNAP benefit cuts.

@laist.com Oct 9, 2026, 6:01 PM

Community college students can now transfer to Arizona State with a guaranteed pathway. ASU is accepting all 60 associate degrees for transfer.

🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5mr8r
✍️ Yusra Farzan

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@laist.com Oct 9, 2026, 4:04 PM

Mayor James Butts skipped The LA Local's forum. Five challengers spoke on billboards, transparency and traffic.

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✍️ Isaiah Murtaugh Barish and Justin Agrelo | The LA Local

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Text listing three changes five challengers want, with logos LAist and THE LA LOCAL.

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@laist.com Oct 9, 2026, 12:29 AM

The city of Los Angeles will establish a fund to clean the 6th Street Bridge, where trash and other waste often pile up on pedestrian walkways.

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✍️ Alejandra Molina | The LA Local
📸 Trevor Stamp/LAist

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@laist.com Oct 8, 2026, 11:01 PM

At the turn of the century, you had more than 700,000 students in Los Angeles Unified Schools. So, the district built more schools, constructing more than 100 campuses. In 2026, enrollment declined about 40% since that peak. 🎥 Mariana Dale, Nic Perez, Joshua Letona

@laist.com Oct 8, 2026, 10:29 PM

Long Beach is preparing for a different kind of weather: southerly swells, followed by rain showers as early as Saturday, all courtesy of a hurricane to make landfall this weekend.

🔗 More on weather: vist.ly/5mmcn

✍️ John Donegan | Long Beach Post
📸 Thomas R. Cordova/Long Beach Post

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@laist.com Oct 8, 2026, 8:39 PM

Construction workers, housekeepers and other laborers will have an opportunity to get free Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) training from Oct. 13 through 16.

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✍️ Julia Barajas
📸 Mike Blake/Reuters

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@laist.com Oct 8, 2026, 6:29 PM

You know Jeff Garlin as Jeff Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Now he's a photographer.

🔗 Hear him on AirTalk: vist.ly/5mkj4
✍️ Manny Valladares and Faheem Khan
📸 Jeff Garlin / Courtesy Elisa Kim

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@laist.com Oct 8, 2026, 5:54 PM

Andy Pages drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning to give L.A. the lead, and the Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 4-1 on Wednesday to clinch their NL Division Series.

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✍️ Charles Odum | Associated Press
📸 Mike Stewart/AP Photo