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 conditions on Los Angeles streets have never been great. As the city contends with a massive budget deficit, the question is: Will they get worse? This June, the city council officially declared a ...

Local leaders on Monday touted the 4% drop in unhoused individuals countywide, and a 3.4% fall in the city of Los Angeles. It followed a smaller decrease in 2024, and marked the first time ever that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A routine trip home from work turned tragic for Juan Luis Gomez Ramirez, who was shot from behind on a Metro bus in the City of Commerce last May. Just hours before the incident, Mayor Karen Bass ...

Last year, Los Angeles notched the highest number of animals being run over on record. This year isn’t looking any better. During 2024, the city received 32,398 requests to remove dead animals from ...

Reports of illegal dumping, long a source of blight in Los Angeles, are up 36% in the first two months of 2025 compared with the same period last year. Some neighborhoods have seen calls about the ...

The number of murders committed in the city of Los Angeles fell sharply last year. Although the final full-year total has not been revealed, through Dec. 28 the Los Angeles Police Department had ...

Los Angeles has a reputation for being extremely liberal. That was borne out in a plethora of results from the now-certified election, including the presidential contest: More than seven in 10 city ...

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 ...

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 ...