A Crosstown analysis of the data indicates that the pace of actual building may be considerably slower. Bass’s Executive Directive 1 was supposed to slash red tape and accelerate approval times for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amidst Los Angeles’s otherwise out-of-control housing market, one bright spot is emerging: Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are popping up all over the place. ADUs are smallish apartments made from ...

On the day Elizabeth was granted a restraining order, her abuser violated it three times. First, her estranged husband showed up at their children’s school. Then, when she was driving her ...

For the first time in six years, Los Angeles was able to notch a small improvement in homelessness, as an array of county and city programs to move people off the streets and indoors began to make an ...

Murders, robbery, break ins and motor vehicle theft are all trending downward in Los Angeles this year, just not at the same rate. The latest data provided by the Los Angeles Police Department’s ...

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 ...

Over the past five years, fines from parking tickets have brought in over $617 million to the city of Los Angeles. But over that same time, the department in charge of writing those tickets ran up ...

In 2023, the city of Los Angeles recorded 327 murders. It’s a tragic loss of life, and results in a homicide rate that exceeds most big cities across California. A city’s homicide total is often used ...

As COVID-19 precautions relaxed last year and people returned to offices, restaurants and shopping malls, crime across Los Angeles began to surge, hitting its highest level in five years. Throughout ...