Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass

Los Angeles fires spark 'smart city' conspiracy theories
As a string of wildfires hit Los Angeles County, social media users spread claims that authorities purposefully set the ...
Exploiting disaster: Renters accuse Los Angeles landlords of "abusive and illegal" price hikes
Because California is in a state of emergency, laws targeting price-gouging, including a ban on landlords raising rents by ...
How The Future Communities Institute Is Tackling Homelessness In Los Angeles
With over 75,000 unhoused individuals in Los Angeles County, the challenge looms large, demanding solutions that are as ...
Should some parts of Los Angeles never rebuild?
The fires in and around Los Angeles are coming under control. The city’s mayor has already issued an executive order to speed ...
Apartment Industry Leaders Launch Pledge for Action to Restore Los Angeles
A group of 15 leading multifamily firms and commercial real estate industry groups have quickly banded together to support ...
The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning ...
Ex-Los Angeles sheriff blasts wokeness crippling city’s wildfire response: ‘Disaster is not the fires, it’s this ideology’
The degree of mismanagement is epic. It’s incompetence married with poisonous ideology, said Villanueva, who was sheriff ...
Los Angeles City Council backs the Hilton Universal City hotel project
The hotel will offer 395 guest rooms and a three-level parking garage as the city gets ready for 2028 Summer Olympics ...
Why Fire Lawsuits Against Los Angeles City Will Likely Fail
The Los Angeles Fire Department estimates that about 10,000 structures have been burned down or damaged in the city's fires.
In Car-Loving Los Angeles, the Charred Remains of Vehicles Cut Deep
For many residents, a set of wheels is an extension of their home, a key to their income or a source of priceless memories.