MyNewsLA18h
LA City Controller to Audit City’s Encampment Cleanup Program
The City Controller Monday announced plans to audit Los Angeles’s Comprehensive Cleaning and Rapid Engagement program, which was launched in 2019 to maintain city streets and address encampments.
Los Angeles Times19d
Fires and windstorms caused at least $350 million in damage to L.A. public facilities, report says
The wildfires that have torn through Pacific Palisades and other parts of Los Angeles this month have damaged or destroyed about $350 million in public infrastructure, including streetlights ...
KTLA19d
Universal City hotel expansion project approved by L.A. City Council
A new luxury 18-story tower will be coming to the Hilton Los Angeles/ Universal City Hotel after the Los Angeles City Council approved expansion plans during its meeting on Tuesday. L.A. City ...
San Diego Union-Tribune21d
Opinion: After L.A. disaster, city must rethink its risky plan for UTC
The devasting wildfires that have been ravaging Los Angeles tell us one thing for certain ... This should be enough to caution San Diego City officials that building in very high fire hazard ...
The New York Times23d
The L.A. Fires Expose a Web of Governments, Weak by Design
As Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles confronts a city dealing with devastating fires, her performance has raised questions, even among her supporters, about whether she can become the dominant ...
Variety24d
After L.A. Fires, Bringing Production Back Has Become More Urgent Than Ever
Despite the high cost of shooting in L.A., the city does enjoy many advantages. Mike Schur, who shot “A Man on the Inside” in L.A. last year, notes that the city is the nexus of the creative ...
Bloomberg L.P.24d
What LA’s Fires Mean for the City’s Housing Shortage
Even as firefighters still struggle to contain the historic wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles over the past week, questions are swirling about how the city can address a ...
New York Post24d
Democrat on LA City Council bashes city for prioritizing free crack pipes over funding fire dept
A Democrat on the LA City Council is slamming “chronic under-investment” in basic services and fire prevention — even as Mayor Karen Bass has funneled money to providing drug addicts with ...
USA Today25d
‘Doomsday scenario:’ Debate over LA's fitness to host 2028 Olympics widens amid wildfires
LOS ANGELES – Bathed by a full moon, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this week looked ready for action. Floodlights shone. So did the Olympic rings on a sign at the front of the 77,500-seat ...
MarketWatch25d
Los Angeles rents could rise by up to 12% because of the wildfires, experts say
With thousands of Los Angeles homeowners seeking refuge from the wrath of wildfires, the fallout from the destruction could include higher rent prices across the city, where more than half of ...
CBS News25d
L.A. Fires: Progress in Southern California containment efforts as winds weaken
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Friday that civic leader Steve Soboroff — a former police commissioner and adviser to late former Mayor Richard Riordan — would lead the city's ...
New York Post25d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...