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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In her State of the City address this month, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass boasted that her administration had fast-tracked the construction of more than 30,000 affordable housing units. A Crosstown ...

Last year, the city of Los Angeles recorded more than 300 murders for the first time in more than a decade. When 2020 ended, there had been 343 homicides, a 34% increase from the previous year. This ...

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 ...

For the past six months, Mar Vista resident Clayton Przekop has been living in his garage while his home is being renovated. It’s a nice garage. Przekop spent $150,000, and two years of permitting and ...

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 ...

Los Angeles gives out close to 2 million parking tickets each year. But for the city, it’s not nearly enough. In the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2024, the city collected $110 million in parking ...