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 ...

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 ...

Through April 12 of this year, 39 pedestrians in the city of Los Angeles were killed in traffic collisions, according to LAPD Traffic Division Compstat data. During the same period a decade earlier, ...

The number of murders committed in the city of Los Angeles fell sharply last year. Although the final full-year total has not been revealed, through Dec. 28 the Los Angeles Police Department had ...

The year 2023 was disturbingly deadly on the roads of Los Angeles, with the 345 vehicular fatalities surpassing the number of homicides. That includes 108 people who were killed in hit-and-run ...

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 ...

For the first time in six years, Los Angeles was able to notch a small improvement in homelessness, as an array of county and city programs to move people off the streets and indoors began to make an ...

Street racing in Los Angeles is not slowing down, and law enforcement, by its own admission, has largely failed to combat the sometimes deadly high-speed displays. Blame a combination of weak laws and ...

Los Angeles is going dark at an alarming level, as thieves strip copper wire from street lights and other infrastructure. Repair crews are struggling to keep up. The wire can be resold to recyclers ...

After dropping in 2023, robberies in the city of Los Angeles are rising in the early part of the new year. Even more troubling is the number of instances that involve a firearm. In the first two ...