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 followed a smaller decrease in 2024, and marked the first time ever that ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

When domestic violence victims get a restraining order, abusers routinely violate them with no consequences.

When the coronavirus pandemic began and stay-at-home orders were issued, many types of crime fell in Los Angeles. That included bicycle thefts. The 2,012 two-wheelers reported stolen to the Los ...

In August, 618 complaints about water waste flowed to the MyLA311 system. It was a record number of calls to the phone number and website where Los Angeles residents can report problems or place ...

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 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 ...

September marked a record for bike safety in Los Angeles: Even with more cyclists on the road, the month had the fewest bicycle-vehicle collisions since the city began releasing data in 2012. There ...