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 ...

The debate over its merits continues, but after two years, numbers are far below projections. Through April 2025 (a total of 25 months), cumulative revenues stand at about $662 million, according to a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

News reports about retail theft were inescapable in 2023, and when the year came to an end Los Angeles had entered unprecedented territory: There were 11,945 shoplifting reports in the city, according ...

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 ...

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 ...