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 ...

Nine months after the devastating wildfires, construction in the Pacific Palisades is finally picking up, with the number of building permits issued in the neighborhood nearly from triple the level in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The year 2023 was disturbingly deadly on the roads of Los Angeles, with the 345 vehicular fatalities surpassing the number of homicides. That includes 108 people who were killed in hit-and-run ...

The city of Los Angeles is on pace to suffer more than 300 vehicle-related deaths for the third consecutive year. Although the number of traffic fatalities in the first nine months of 2024 declined ...