The city of Vernon may be the nastiest place in California.
The industrial city a few miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles is home to the region's last remain
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Metro has the cash to build two crucial elements of its Crenshaw/LAX light-rail line, even though there's been some foot-dragging about going forward on the MTA
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Big victory for Wetlands Defense Fund, Access for All and attorneys James Birkelund and Rose M. Zoia, who convinced a San Francisco judge today to issue a preliminar
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Manuel Candelaria, a mentally challenged man living near Boyle Heights, says he was frightened and threatened when a Century 21 agent showed up at his home – s
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For the second time this year a breach of people's most intimate data has happened at the hands of Los Angeles County government.
The first time involved a missi
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You don't see pure puff pieces on the front of the Los Angeles Times much. But today the paper ran a near-lionization of Dr. David Feinberg, who LA Weekly inves
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After a decade of shelling out loans to any poor fool who would bite and picking up properties like a game of mindless monopoly, the billion-dollar Deutsche Bank emp
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U.S. authorities seem pretty cocksure about this case: After a boat ran around in Carlsbad and smuggling-at-sea suspects they were shadowing on land led them to an a
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A few days before Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gives his rousing, hopeful State of the City address, Laura Chick is pondering a future with a new leader en
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Updated after the jump: Fiona Ma officially waters down her bill, calls it the “Raves Safety Act.” A state assembly committee passes the bill.
It looks l
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A Hollywood actress and blogger says she was banned from the Chateau Marmont restaurant for, of all things, tweeting.
Apparently the hotel known for the rock-star be
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We're not sure if this is a positive sign of a turnaround, or an image that will be our time's version of a Depression-era soup line.
But it appears that peo
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