Citywide, the number of permits for EV chargers has risen from 985 in 2020 to 3,689 in 2024—marking five consecutive years of ...

Crosstown LA Traffic, Crime, Air QualityWill easier charging be enough to convince more drivers to switch?

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 ...

(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 ...

On the day Elizabeth was granted a restraining order, her abuser violated it three times. First, her estranged husband showed up at their children’s school. Then, when she was driving her ...

How does one grasp the scale and scope of Los Angeles’s homeless crisis? On Thursday, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the main county agency that tracks homelessness, coordinates services ...

In 2017, the last year that recreational cannabis was illegal in California, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 566 people for marijuana-related crimes. Black people accounted for 30% of those ...

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 ...

In 2023, the city of Los Angeles recorded 327 murders. It’s a tragic loss of life, and results in a homicide rate that exceeds most big cities across California. A city’s homicide total is often used ...

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 ...

When the coronavirus pandemic began and stay-at-home orders were issued, many types of crime fell in Los Angeles. That included bicycle thefts. The 2,012 two-wheelers reported stolen to the Los ...