PLAYA DEL REY -The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to an RV fire at the Ballona Wetlands Wednesday night.
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council gave final approval Wednesday to an ordinance raising the minimum wage for people working at some…
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Gil Cedillo, who has been a no-show at council meetings for the past week, failed to gain any groun…
WESTCHESTER -Westchester residents and the president of the Westchester Playa Neighborhood Council are speaking out after Councilmember Mike B…
VENICE- The Los Angeles Police Department is looking for two suspects wanted in an armed robbery near the Venice Boardwalk Tuesday.
WESTCHESTER -Councilmember Mike Bonin hired armed security services through a division of the Los Angeles Police Department to guard his Westc…
LOS ANGELES - More triple-digit heat baked the region Monday, with a mini heat wave expected to stretch into Tuesday but forecasters said c…
The Los Angeles City Council postponed its vote on the lease extension for the Venice Bridge home until August.
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles real estate developer was found guilty today of paying a $500,000 bribe to a city councilman to ``grease the whe…
LOS ANGELES - The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County decreased today for the 13th consecutive day…
LOS ANGELES - The number of people hospitalized with a coronavirus infection in Los Angeles County has increased by 21 people to 762, accord…
Often, they say that the truth is stranger than fiction. For examples of this, you need look no further than current events, like a global mas…
LOS ANGELES - Southland elected leaders today blasted the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal abortion protections of Roe v. Wa…
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles City Council committee today approved an amendment to the city's sweeping law regulating locations of homeless enc…
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance Tuesday to prohibit people from assembling or disassembling bicycles in the …
LOS ANGELES - Three people in a vehicle that was reported stolen in the Los Angeles area were taken into custody today following a sometimes…
SANTA MONICA - Three area beaches top a list--they don't want to be on. Los Angeles County had three beaches land on Heal the Bay's Beach B…
INGLEWOOD - Nonprofit director/businesswoman Tina McKinnor was sworn in to the Assembly today following her victory in a special election in t…
LOS ANGELES - COVID-19 vaccine doses for children under age 5 began slowly rolling out in Los Angeles County Tuesday, although health officia…
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council today tentatively adopted an ordinance that would require hotels to provide workers with personal…
The Neighborhood Council of Westchester Playa is asking for safe access to the Westchester Senior Center.
LOS ANGELES - A nationwide wave of flight cancellations this weekend has had an effect at Southland airports, with 12 scrapped flights and 56…
VENICE- Councilmember Mike Bonin is asking to extend the lease for the Venice Bridge Home at 100 Sunset Avenue.
PLAYA DEL REY - A brushfire consumed more than three acres of vegetation at the Ballona Creek Wetlands of Playa del Rey.
LOS ANGELES - The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped today for the fourth time in five day…
VENICE- In a turn of events Friday, a no vote on the Venice Median project from Councilmember Paul Koretz forces the project to go back to cou…
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles was selected among 16 North American cities to host matches during the 2026 World Cup, FIFA announced today.
LOS ANGELES - Following a successful petition by a coalition of labor unions and other organizations, and a 14-0 city council decision Wednes…
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge gave final approval to Los Angeles' proposed settlement with the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights in which the ci…
VENICE- Despite a noticeable absence from Councilmember Mike Bonin and his office, the homeless encampments at Centennial Park have been cleared.
LOS ANGELES - Rep. Karen Bass surpassed billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso today as ballot-counting continued in the mayoral prima…
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell started a petition today calling for the shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center to be…
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council tentatively approved an ordinance today to prohibit people from assembling or disassembling bicyc…
VENICE- Two motions on the Venice Median project are set to go before the Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) this m…
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Eric Garcetti signed into law a ban on the sale of flavored tobacco in the city, with an exception for hookah lounges tha…
VENICE - Just days after Westside Current released a story detailing the demise of the Venice Beach Library caused by the unruliness of the un…
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County released its first post- election update of results from Tuesday's statewide primary today, adding more tha…
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LOS ANGELES - A federal judge today tentatively signed off on Los Angeles' proposed settlement with the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights in whi…
SANTA MONICA- The father of a Brentwood School student is suing the institution and its leader, alleging that after the 2020 death of George F…
The Los Angeles Homelessness and Poverty Committee voted to approve the Venice Median Project, again, on Thursday. In a 3-1 vote, with Council…
LOS ANGELES - A heat wave that's bearing down on the Southland is promising several days of elevated temperatures and potentially dangerous co…
VENICE- The Venice Median Project, otherwise known as the Pacific Dell Project is set to be heard…. again. The Homelessness & Poverty Comm…
LOS ANGELES - More than two years after being approved by the Los Angeles City Council, an ordinance goes into effect today banning politic…
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva's bid for a second term will move to a November runoff election against former Long …
LOS ANGELES - As expected, billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso and Rep. Karen Bass will square off in a November runoff election in …
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles Department of Water and Power cyber security chief was sentenced to four years behind bars today for lyin…
LOS ANGELES - If more voters don't get to the poll today--the state could set a record low when it comes to turnout.
VENICE- The Los Angeles Police Department called off a search Monday for what was thought to be a wanted felon on the run.
WESTCHESTER- Some Westchester residents are asking to have the senior center at Westchester Park cleaned up for election day.
VENICE- I was reading the latest letter from the Coalition for Safe Coastal Development to Homeless and Poverty Committee, which confesses to …
Opinion: Ahead of the primary election, here’s a Venetian perspective.
LA City Council is proposing to raise the budget for homeless response team CIRCLE, from 3 to 8 million dollars. LAMayor.org describes CIRCLE …
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VENICE- We at the Coalition for Safe Coastal Development, the folks who have brought a compelling law suit against the city and the project’s …
LOS ANGELES -On Monday, April 26th, Los Angeles Homeless Authority Executive Director Heidi Marston delivered her resignation in the form of a…
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VENICE -The city’s new pet project, CIRCLE, will operate “Decompression Centers” where homeless people involved in 911 incidents (rather than …
VENICE- 15 Months ago, my tenure at this publication began with two pieces published in tandem: a look back on the Venice Bridge Home's impac…
Despite my 11th hour plea to The City Council last week to withhold its support of The Venice Median Project by voting to ABSTAIN, I was not i…
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The latest chapter in LA City Council’s Homeless Encampment conflict played itself out this week in a controversy that appears to have started…
On Wednesday the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-2 to pass a new safe open places ordinance, which will empower authorities to enforce no ca…
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WESTSIDE -People throughout Los Angeles are both outraged and confused by the dangerous and dirty conditions of our sidewalks and streets, our…
VENICE- As City workers haul away tons of trash from the Ocean Front Walk, exposing the dead carcass of what was once a beautiful park, we all…
VENICE- According to the last official homeless count, the City of Los Angeles has over 60 percent of Los Angeles County's unhoused population…
As the homeless crisis spirals out of control throughout his district, as his constituents are attacked and assaulted and fires burn on a dail…
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