A Sore Spot in L.A.’s Housing Crisis: Foreign-Owned Homes Sitting Empty
International buyers, from China in particular, have contributed to the hundreds of thousands of vacant residential ...
Newsom waives rental price caps in affluent areas around LA
Gov. Gavin Newsom has waived price-gouging rules for rentals of single-family-homes and large apartments in wealthy areas ...
This LA social club is hell-bent on saving the city's disappearing diners
Last Sunday, while sitting at the head of several tables pushed together, Jake Hook shared with the group of seven diners an ...
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Thousands told to evacuate after two new blazes start in Los Angeles County
A new brush fire began late Wednesday in Sepulveda Pass, growing to 40 acres near the densely populated Sherman Oaks neighborhood and UCLA, but its progress was stopped. Los Angeles Fire ...
KTLA18d
Gunfire erupts in Los Angeles neighborhood; 6 injured including suspect
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Six people, including one suspect, were injured when gunfire erupted in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles and detectives are asking for the public’s help in ...
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In LA’s Altadena Neighborhood, Community Food Solutions Feed Wildfire Recovery
During the Great Migration, when 6 million African Americans moved from the South to the North, Midwest, and West, many Black families settled here as nearby neighborhoods ... created dangerously poor ...
Los Angeles Times20d
Hollywood production budgets were already strained. Fires could make matters worse
Entertainment executives said the fires could result in ancillary costs going up, although not enough to fundamentally change the calculus for filming in Los Angeles. Executives and experts said ...
NorthJersey.com20d
Nevin Mattessich voted North Jersey Wrestler of the Week for Jan. 13-19
After three days of voting, Don Bosco junior Nevin Mattessich was selected as the North Jersey Wrestler of the Week. Mattessich won the Bergen County title at 190 pounds without allowing an ...
Wall Street Journal20d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County. Median home values for Altadena’s Black households were $961,000 in 2023, compared with $677,700 ...
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Off-Duty Los Angeles Fire Captain, Son, Brother Save Neighborhood from Wildfire
Los Angeles Capt. Dan Lievense hooked up hose to a hydrant and saved 14 houses in his Altadena neighborhood. There are many stories emerging how residents sprung into action to help their ...
The Atlantic22d
Los Angeles’s Ash Problem
(Los Angeles County has temporarily banned their ... Borch told me that the wind could be helping to dilute the contamination in my neighborhood. “A lot of these ashes spread out over a much ...
UPI23d
Progress cited in containing L.A. wildfires as first residents allowed to re-enter
Advertisement At least 10 people died in the massive Palisades wildfire in which hurricane-force Santa Ana winds whipped through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood west of Los Angeles last week ...