Los Angeles city officials may be empowered to remove homeless encampments from hillside areas at severe risk of fire, even without the property owner's permission, under a proposal that the City ...

The city's park system has fallen from 19th to 90th place among the top 100 cities in the U.S. in just five years.

There’s a parking lot in the city of Los Angeles lined with plywood platforms where unhoused people can set up tents and access meals, bathrooms and other services — all at taxpayers’ expense. The ...

L.A. city council members are pushing for funding to fix widespread streetlight outages that they blame mostly on organized crime. They say public safety is a risk. Copper wire theft is an issue ...

Los Angeles is working on its first major overhaul of the city’s charter — the document that acts as the city’s constitution for how government is run — in more than 25 years. Now there’s a new way ...

As the city and county of Los Angeles remained in the state of a local emergency, Los Angeles officials responded more than 350 car crashes, over 600 tree emergencies as well as thousands of power ...

Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman said Monday that Los Angeles appears to be in a “moment of turmoil” that played a role in her last-minute surprise challenge to Karen Bass in the upcoming ...

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As Los Angeles grapples with the aftermath of January’s wildfires, the LA City Council has postponed a decision on waiving rebuilding fees for affected properties, leaving homeowners and business ...

For nearly 650,000 Los Angeles households living in rent-controlled apartments, the rules governing how much their rent can rise each year are about to change—with a new formula that sets allowable ...