Rooftop solar can help with that while also reducing the need to build massive solar farms in the desert. In Los Angeles, ...

Now, Los Angeles is part of a nationwide trend of dropping crime levels. Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York City and other large metropolitan areas are also seeing declines. Yet the hangover from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the congested streets of Los Angeles, anger is boiling over into dangerous incidents of road rage, a growing number of which involve guns. From Jan. 1–June 30 there were 459 reports of road rage in ...

The city of Los Angeles hit a grim record last year, recording a 56% spike in hate crimes. There were 594 reported crimes in which a victim was targeted based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual ...

Overall crime in Los Angeles fell nearly 11% last year. As the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the region, there were 192,438 crimes reported in the city, down from the 215,763 in 2019, ...

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 ...

Mental-health issues are a prevalent and ongoing concern in addressing homelessness. That includes how already vulnerable homeless populations are exposed to crime. From Jan. 1-May 31, there were 32 ...

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 ...

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 ...