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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Amidst Los Angeles’s otherwise out-of-control housing market, one bright spot is emerging: Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are popping up all over the place. ADUs are smallish apartments made from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local leaders on Monday touted the 4% drop in unhoused individuals countywide, and a 3.4% fall in the city of Los Angeles. It followed a smaller decrease in 2024, and marked the first time ever that ...

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 ...

Los Angeles gives out close to 2 million parking tickets each year. But for the city, it’s not nearly enough. In the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2024, the city collected $110 million in parking ...

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 ...