Real estate across Los Angeles County has been on a tear, with the assessed value of residential property rising, on average, by 54% over the past eight years. But those gains are not distributed ...

News reports about retail theft were inescapable in 2023, and when the year came to an end Los Angeles had entered unprecedented territory: There were 11,945 shoplifting reports in the city, according ...

The city of Los Angeles recorded 397 murders in 2021, surpassing 2007, when there were 395 homicides. [This story has been updated from the original reported 385 homicides in 2021, as new data became ...

In 2017, the last year that recreational cannabis was illegal in California, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 566 people for marijuana-related crimes. Black people accounted for 30% of those ...

Overall crime in Los Angeles fell nearly 11% last year. As the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the region, there were 192,438 crimes reported in the city, down from the 215,763 in 2019, ...

The reporting was funded in part by the Southern California Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research Translation at the University of Southern California. In the fall of 2021, the pandemic ...

The county has more people, is more diverse and wealthier. Its roads are more congested and its housing is more scarce. And its population has become older, like the rest of the nation. Crosstown ...

How does one grasp the scale and scope of Los Angeles’s homeless crisis? On Thursday, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the main county agency that tracks homelessness, coordinates services ...

In her State of the City address this month, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass boasted that her administration had fast-tracked the construction of more than 30,000 affordable housing units. A Crosstown ...

Had it not been for a sharp increase in the number of Asian residents, Los Angeles County’s population would have remained pretty much flat during the past decade. According to the 2020 U.S. Census ...

Where South Figueroa crosses Slauson Avenue, bad things happen. Over the past four years, the intersection has been the scene of 17 felony hit-and-run collisions and five severe injuries. The ...

The price of copper has more than doubled since the pandemic. Thieves have noticed, and are ripping out the wiring from Los Angeles streetlights at rates never before seen. In January the city fielded ...