The strike halts classes for more than 566,000 students in California.

The disgraced Los Angeles councilman says he wants to address homelessness. Advocates say he’s hurting any real progress.

While progressives couldn’t manage a clean sweep, Angelenos have sent a slew of fresh faces to elected office and handed them a mandate for change.

The new Los Angeles city controller highlighted the outsize police budget in a series of giant billboards across the city.

The author of “City of Quartz” and “Ecology of Fear” changed the way we think about cities, inequality, and climate change.

A leaked tape recording council members’ racist slurs demonstrates the deep alliance between real estate interests and the state.

A gaggle of bigoted municipal lawmakers have become unlikely—but effective—poster children for electoral reform.

With the city at a political crossroads and the unhoused foremost on the minds of voters, Measure ULA could be a game changer—if it passes.

As the city prepares for the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics two years later, longtime residents are being forced out.

The justices consistently ruled against plaintiffs who had their constitutional rights violated—and, in some cases, their bodies abused—by police, the Border Patrol, and the CIA.

The Los Angeles mayoral front-runner was a member of the GOP until recently and is winning based on wild promises to sweep the city’s problems under the rug.

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

Social equity programs were supposed to correct the disparities of the war on drugs as marijuana became legal. What went wrong?

Police unions, the retail lobby, and other critics of criminal justice reform have seized on viral images of package theft and shoplifting to push for a rollback of California’s efforts to reduce its prison population.

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place—bear with me—in Los Angeles.

Tens of thousands of unhoused people in Los Angeles County suffered through a massive downpour this week. Now comes the bitter cold.

Navigating U.S. cities with small humans in tow can be a nightmare. The Build Back Better and infrastructure bills offer some funding to change that.

Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

The chaos unfolding outside of a Los Angeles spa is a case study in how the right’s media and political ecosystems feed each other, often resulting in very real violence.