The Latest Breaking News from LA County

LOS ANGELES — Officials in Beverly Hills will not use city resources to enforce a Los Angeles Countywide indoor mask mandate if the county Public Health Department soon issues that measure.

LOS ANGELES — With Los Angeles County set to decide in the coming days whether to impose a new mask mandate, one factor of note is a rise in coronavirus deaths.

Super-contagious omicron subvariants that can reinfect people within weeks are fueling a new wave of the pandemic across California.

LOS ANGELES — Workplaces throughout Los Angeles County are being hit hard by the latest coronavirus wave, with the number of reported case clusters nearly quadrupling since early May.

LOS ANGELES — With the coronavirus resurgent and cases and hospitalizations on the rise, Los Angeles is poised to become the first California county to reinstate mandatory public indoor masking.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County is already in the grips of a coronavirus surge fueled by the omicron subvariant BA.5, but yet another worrisome strain that’s causing concern in India has also been found locally.

LOS ANGELES — Sustained jumps in cases and hospitalizations fueled by the hyper-infectious BA.5 subvariant pushed Los Angeles County into the high COVID-19 community level Thursday, a shift that could trigger a new public indoor mask mandate by the end of this month unless conditions improve.

LOS ANGELES — California’s summer is being complicated by a dizzying array of omicron subvariants that have emerged over the last several months.

LOS ANGELES — The number of weekly COVID-19 deaths reported in Los Angeles County has doubled over the last month — the first significant increase in fatalities since the winter surge.