In the early 1990s, there were years with more than 2,000 homicides in the city. Last year, Los Angeles reported 230 murders, ...

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 ...

A rising homicide rate has sparked worry across Los Angeles. Many news outlets reported how the 397 murders in the city in 2021 was the highest total in 14 years. Yet one aspect of the increase in ...

In 2023, the city of Los Angeles recorded 327 murders. It’s a tragic loss of life, and results in a homicide rate that exceeds most big cities across California. A city’s homicide total is often used ...

The reporting was funded in part by the Southern California Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research Translation at the University of Southern California. In the fall of 2021, the pandemic ...

Fewer new businesses are opening in Los Angeles than during any period in at least the past 20 years, raising the specter of dwindling tax receipts at the very moment the city is confronting a yawning ...

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, ...

Los Angeles has a reputation for being extremely liberal. That was borne out in a plethora of results from the now-certified election, including the presidential contest: More than seven in 10 city ...

Where South Figueroa crosses Slauson Avenue, bad things happen. Over the past four years, the intersection has been the scene of 17 felony hit-and-run collisions and five severe injuries. The ...

On the first day of 2020, the unresponsive body of Corinna Ortega, a Latina woman, was discovered by a friend in a tent in Parnell Park in Whittier. The coroner would rule that Corinna, 22, died of a ...

Reports of illegal dumping, long a source of blight in Los Angeles, are up 36% in the first two months of 2025 compared with the same period last year. Some neighborhoods have seen calls about the ...