Los Angeles

Beyond their ideas on how to curb housing prices, Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman have little to offer that would lower living costs in L.A.

LA28 Olympic venues should swap single-use plastic cups and utensils for washable, reusable items and let fans bring their own reusable bottles.

Residents of cities like Pacifica want to limit the presence of visitors and corporations. Companies like Airbnb want to keep their lucrative coastal listings. That tension has led to increased attempts to influence a small but powerful committee.

Attorney General Rob Bonta isn't the first state official to give in to corporations after tough talk about standing up to them. Governors Newsom and Brown did it, too.

Tanner Blackman’s job is to push housing projects through Los Angeles’ famously Byzantine permitting process. With a torrent of state laws aimed at streamlining and speeding up approvals to combat the housing shortage, will the humble permit expediter profession survive?

Since 2009, California has increased its incentives for companies to film in the state. One Hollywood-area lawmaker says there’s still more to do to beat the competition from other states.

Federal and local prosecutors unveil new cases and a guilty plea, while asking: Who was actually watching the books at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority?

Mayor Karen Bass’ challenger, Councilmember Nithya Raman, says LA has lost confidence in Chief Jim McDonnell. That prompted Bass to back him, even as police protect ICE agents and draw the public's anger.

Biddy Mason, while enslaved in California, sued and won her freedom. Then she bought and developed CA land and launched a church and a school. Now LA is renaming a park for her.

A Los Angeles judge ruled federal immigration agents likely violated the Constitution by not assessing flight risk when making warrantless arrests.