Los Angeles

Fraud allegations by the Trump administration could cost the Los Angeles area hundreds of millions of dollars in federal homelessness funding.

Nithya Raman's success at making the runoff in the L.A. mayor's race means Karen Bass will need to answer difficult questions about high living costs and public safety.

"Everyone is going through something," one California teen said about the prevalence of mental health concerns among his peers. Youth advocates are urging the state to expand access to treatment.

Karen Bass would have coasted back into office if Spencer Pratt had advanced to the general election. But it would've been a wasted opportunity for voters to have a substantive debate about her record.

A Los Angeles prosecutor likened a Black murder suspect to a Bengal tiger. Decades later, the California Supreme Court found that trope showed unacceptable racial bias.

An interfaith group known as the "godmothers of the disappeared" meets weekly at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles to remember and advocate for the people detained by immigration authorities over the last year.

The Trump administration downplayed the decline in homelessness, contending far more people are on the streets today than a decade ago.

The races for governor and Los Angeles mayor offer candidates in contrast: some with years of experience running bureaucracies and others proud to have none.

Palisades and Eaton fire survivors had 12 months' relief before resuming mortgage payments. Lawmakers are voting on a bill that would give them three years’ forbearance.

Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.