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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...