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 ...

In November 2022, city of Los Angeles voters approved Measure ULA. A hotly contested tax on real estate transactions north of $5 million, with proceeds going to address anti-homelessness efforts, it ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...