LA city's budget hearings resume this morning, Spencer Pratt makes debate stage debut in NBC4 mayoral debate, and the City Council tells the Board of Police Commissioners to stop police officers from ...

LA's homeless services workers are facing the unsettling prospect of losing their jobs, as they watch those with a higher pay-grade split up the agency they'd worked under to provide services for the ...

News from an LA Reporter. In this issue, that includes LA city's elected fiscal watchdog Kenneth Mejia audits LA's top financial advisor, Chinatown tenants lead a march to demand affordable rent, alar...

News from an LA Reporter. In this issue, that includes the release of a report by the Charter Reform Commission advocating police accountability measures and expanding the City Council to 25-members, ...

News from an LA Reporter. In this issue, that includes a plan for improving LA's 'credit score' as the city prepares to issue $1.8 billion in debt to pay for the LA Convention Center project, the Pali...

News from an LA Reporter. This issue, that includes a look inside Saturday's DSA-LA debate on whether to jump into the LA mayor's race, the first mayoral debate tonight, City Council members gather t...

News from an LA Reporter. This issue, that includes an encampment sweeps blotter, comedians getting involved in LA city elections, a mad dash for signatures to get on the ballot, and more.

The commission is set to take up a motion by its chair, Raymond Meza, who had previously taken a hands-off approach to sharing such private conversations, saying it was up to the City Council.

News from an LA Reporter. This issue is focused just on the Charter Reform Commission, which is headed into an elimination round on Saturday, with a last minute push to get a proposal to give 16 and 1...

People submitted more than 260 letters, and crammed into a North Hollywood meeting room last week to urge against a proposal to strip the City Controller's office of its accounting duties. This comes ...

News from an LA Reporter. This issue, that includes a bevy of citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives getting fed into the election hopper, The Nation magazine dedicating a special package to Los Angeles...

Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...

Some point to a tight timeline and crowded plate for the commission. Others say it's a political hot potato.

Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes LA County officials short on Measure A funds proposing to gut homeless services, a panel tackling LA city's budget woes gets going, and a proposed ba...

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes a progressive challenge against Mayor Karen Bass, rent hikes to be capped after two years of organizing, LAPD asks for cash for Olympics and encampme...

Huang, a housing advocate and pastor, said she was upset by Bass's attempt to scale back LA's 'mansion tax.' She also criticizes Bass's Inside Safe program, calling it a bandaid solution that's very c...

Workers at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority who do outreach to unhoused people, and help get people housed, have stuck it out while some of their colleagues have left for stabler jobs. They...

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes LA's anti-Olympics movement getting abandoned by a one-time close ally, Mamdani inspires local politicos, Working Families Party making inroads in Lo...

Zohran Mamdani voted for himself not as a candidate of the Democratic party, but of the Working Families Party. The local California chapters of the 'third' option for mostly Democrat types are also t...

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes some things LA County residents should know about the pause on CalFresh food aid, LA City Controller Mejia dropping a scathing critique of LAPD's arm...

Alissa, Mike, and guest co-host Liz Chou discuss a secretive $2 million payout to LA County’s CEO, who claims she suffered “reputational harm” from Measure G. An LA City charter reform proposal would ...

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes the closure of a research group that helped get LA's $15 minimum wage and change our understanding of homelessness, the LA Fed backing caps to rent h...

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes the LA City Council waging a public battle with City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, a councilwoman agitating for charter reform commissioners to reve...

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes a win for journalists attacked by LAPD while covering protests, and LA leaders telling the charter reform commission they no longer want to get legal...