(Image generated with MidJourney) Los Angeles installed more than triple the number of electric-vehicle chargers last year than it did just five years prior, pushing the city ever closer to a point ...

We counted all the reported accidents on 24 segments of Los Angeles freeways for a year. Then we calculated the number of accidents per mile on each segment. Here’s what we found: Most Accidents Per ...

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 ...

LA by the Numbers…Decline in new businesses opening up spells trouble for city finances ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

A rising homicide rate has sparked worry across Los Angeles. Many news outlets reported how the 397 murders in the city in 2021 was the highest total in 14 years. Yet one aspect of the increase in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...