Bass is trying to close a nearly $1 billion shortfall and avoid laying off city workers.| Los Angeles Times
Former City Councilmember Paul Krekorian, who now works for Mayor Karen Bass, identified at least five Olympic venues that could become the subject of a citywide election.| Los Angeles Times
Mayor Karen Bass and chief recovery officer Steve Soboroff said the city would soon hire an outside firm to represent the city's interests in wildfire relief efforts.| Los Angeles Times
The affluent coastal enclave has remained closed to the public since the devastating January wildfire, months after other fire-damaged neighborhoods reopened.| Los Angeles Times
The City Council's 11-2 vote to confirm Jim McDonnell as the next LAPD chief came amid renewed scrutiny of his record on immigration enforcement as president-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.| Los Angeles Times
The massive Republican tax bill signed by Trump is expected to soon claw $750 million per year from the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which oversees four public hospitals and roughly two dozen clinics.| Los Angeles Times
County fire or sheriff’s officials appear to have failed to set the alerts in motion, leaving many west Altadena residents to flee as flames and embers closed in.| Los Angeles Times
Despite years of costly lawsuits, oversight measures and promises by leaders to rein in indiscriminate use of force, the LAPD faces sharp criticism, fresh litigation and questions.| Los Angeles Times
The LAPD chief said in a department-wide message this week that some officers face conflicting feelings of 'loyalty, frustration, fear, or sometimes even shame as the community mistakenly views you as part of something that you are not.'| Los Angeles Times
In the last five years, the city has shelled out nearly $70 million for jury verdicts or settlements from lawsuits involving officers who alleged whistleblower retaliation and other workplace injustices.| Los Angeles Times
The department is down hundreds of officers from its 2019 ranks and projects that it will continue to dwindle in fiscal year 2025.| Los Angeles Times
A leaked recording of L.A. City Council members and a labor official includes racist remarks. Council President Nury Martinez apologizes; Councilmember Kevin de León expresses regret.| Los Angeles Times
The chattering among the city’s political class about potential competitors has grown louder. But it's still unclear whether anyone will mount a serious challenge to an incumbent who still wields considerable clout.| Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced that checkpoints into the Palisades fire zone will remain in place indefinitely, with Gov. Gavin Newsom offering additional resources to ensure the area "remains secure while freeing up LAPD to focus on the public safety needs of the entire city.”| Los Angeles Times
It remains unclear how much the city and its mayor will ultimately be to blame for the explosive horror of the Palisades fire.| Los Angeles Times
Latinos are no longer the sleeping giant. We are the giant. Where we decide to go politically is where the country will go.| Los Angeles Times
When fire hydrants ran dry, the L.A. Department of Water and Power struggled to get water where needed. The utility's operations chief explains the decisions as the fire spread.| Los Angeles Times
The politicians' private texts highlight an increasingly fractious relationship between two of the most powerful women in Los Angeles.| Los Angeles Times
In late January 2024, after a series of rainstorms, a DWP property manager spotted a tear in the reservoir’s floating cover, according to internal emails reviewed by The Times.| Los Angeles Times
Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure in areas where hydrants ran dry during the Palisades fire as 'leak prone,' 'severely undersized' and not having enough flow to support firefighters.| Los Angeles Times
Bass put new restrictions on her plan to speed up the approval of affordable housing, taking out properties that are in historic districts, hillsides with high fire risk and other areas.| Los Angeles Times