Across Los Angeles, ticket activity remains below pre-pandemic totals. In the mid-2010s there were generally about 2.3 ...

The costs of running the city’s parking enforcement program are significantly higher than they were just a few years ago.

Reports of illegal dumping, long a source of blight in Los Angeles, are up 36% in the first two months of 2025 compared with the same period last year. Some neighborhoods have seen calls about the ...

Electric scooters have become the vehicle of choice for many people in Los Angeles, including large numbers of college students. It turns out, they are also increasingly a target for thieves. In 2024, ...

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We collect our COVID-19 data on new infections from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The data is updated daily on our interactive map. We used population data from the 2018 American ...

Tagging ticks down, though a few neighborhoods continue to get hit frequently ...

Tracy Hernandez is the founding chief executive of the Los Angeles County Business Federation, a nonprofit, grassroots alliance of 180 top business networks in Southern California. It counts among its ...

Publisher and Editor Gabriel Kahn is a professor of professional practice at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. His research focuses on the economics of the media industry. He teaches classes on ...