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 ...

The Los Angeles Police Department announced last month that it had finally reversed a worrisome trend: Overall crime in the city dropped slightly — falling by a little more than 1% from 2017. For ...

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 ...

The city of Los Angeles recorded 397 murders in 2021, surpassing 2007, when there were 395 homicides. [This story has been updated from the original reported 385 homicides in 2021, as new data became ...

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 ...

Had it not been for a sharp increase in the number of Asian residents, Los Angeles County’s population would have remained pretty much flat during the past decade. According to the 2020 U.S. Census ...

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 ...

The city of Los Angeles suffered 382 murders last year. It is a death toll that sends a decidedly mixed message. It is down 3.8% from the 397 homicides recorded in 2021. But the figure, once again ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...