This June, the city council officially declared a state of fiscal emergency due to the roughly $1 billion current shortfall, ...

Local leaders on Monday touted the 4% drop in unhoused individuals countywide, and a 3.4% fall in the city of Los Angeles. It ...

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 ...

Property values in Los Angeles County have been on a tear, but several communities have seen a meteoric rise.

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 ...

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 hit a grim record last year, recording a 56% spike in hate crimes. There were 594 reported crimes in which a victim was targeted based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual ...

A surge in hate crimes has sparked alarm in Los Angeles and across the country. Last month, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released a special report showing that anti-Asian hate crimes ...

In Los Angeles County, nearly 10,000 street vendors offer a variety of goods and foods: from sidewalk stands selling clothing to the carts hawking the beloved bacon-wrapped hot dogs, tacos, fresh ...

Overall crime in Los Angeles fell nearly 11% last year. As the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the region, there were 192,438 crimes reported in the city, down from the 215,763 in 2019, ...