The drop in new businesses is a worrisome indicator of the city’s potentially shrinking economic vitality. New businesses account for a disproportionate amount of employment growth. And just-opened ...

In November 2022, city of Los Angeles voters approved Measure ULA. A hotly contested tax on real estate transactions north of $5 million, with proceeds going to address anti-homelessness efforts, it ...

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The Los Angeles Police Department announced last month that it had finally reversed a worrisome trend: Overall crime in the city dropped slightly — falling by a little more than 1% from 2017. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city of Los Angeles suffered 382 murders last year. It is a death toll that sends a decidedly mixed message. It is down 3.8% from the 397 homicides recorded in 2021. But the figure, once again ...

The county has more people, is more diverse and wealthier. Its roads are more congested and its housing is more scarce. And its population has become older, like the rest of the nation. 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 ...

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 ...