For decades, Los Angeles traffic has been a steady progression of worsening congestion. In 1982, the typical freeway commuter ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Murders, robbery, break ins and motor vehicle theft are all trending downward in Los Angeles this year, just not at the same rate. The latest data provided by the Los Angeles Police Department’s ...

In 2017, when recreational cannabis was still illegal in California, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 173 Black people for marijuana-related offenses. The next year, cannabis was legalized, ...

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 price of copper has more than doubled since the pandemic. Thieves have noticed, and are ripping out the wiring from Los Angeles streetlights at rates never before seen. In January the city fielded ...

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 ...