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Crosstown LA Traffic, Crime, Air QualityWill easier charging be enough to convince more drivers to switch?
(Image generated with MidJourney) Los Angeles installed more than triple the number of electric-vehicle chargers last year than it did just five years prior, pushing the city ever closer to a point ...
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 ...
(Image generated with MidJourney) 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 ...
GIF by Ivy Tsang The county has more people, is more diverse and wealthier. Its roads are more congested and its housing is more scarce. And its population has become older, like the rest of the ...
We counted all the reported accidents on 24 segments of Los Angeles freeways for a year. Then we calculated the number of accidents per mile on each segment. Here’s what we found: Most Accidents Per ...
On the first day of 2020, the unresponsive body of Corinna Ortega, a Latina woman, was discovered by a friend in a tent in Parnell Park in Whittier. The coroner would rule that Corinna, 22, died of a ...
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 ...
(A row of empty storefronts on Fairfax Ave.) 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 ...
When the moon rises tonight full over the horizon, babies will cry, animals will bite and werewolves will come alive. Or at least that’s the lore. The full moon has long been associated with strange ...
Cash and cannabis make for tempting targets…Just before closing time on Feb. 13, three men and a woman walked into California Cannabis Melrose Dispensary in Larchmont posing as customers. Once inside, ...
The city of Los Angeles is on pace to suffer more than 300 vehicle-related deaths for the third consecutive year. Although the number of traffic fatalities in the first nine months of 2024 declined ...