City of Los Angeles

The first “Safe Sleep Village” funded by the city of Los Angeles for the unhoused has been established in Rampart Village.

The City of Los Angeles has opened up COVID-19 vaccination appointments for anyone over the age of 16, five days ahead of its original planned date.

Spring break has arrived and more and more people are starting to travel once again, leaving public health officials to remind locals and visitors about travel restrictions still in place as they hope to stop another surge like the one after the holiday season.

The doses will be administered at San Fernando Park, Hansen Dam, Crenshaw Christian Center, Lincoln Park, Pierce College, USC University Park and Dodger Stadium, officials said. Dodger Stadium is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the other locations operate between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Los Angeles city-operated COVID-19 vaccination sites, including the large-scale site at Dodger Stadium, are scheduled to reopen Tuesday, with eligibility for shots aligning with the newly expanded pool that allows many essential workers to get vaccine doses. City sites will primarily provide second doses this week for people due for the required follow-up shot, but a small number of first-dose...

A plan to reopen classrooms takes another step forward with the opening of a teachers-only vaccination site. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Monday March 1, 2021.

A new claim filed in federal court by a man named Antwon Jones says the LA City Attorney’s Office wasn’t being honest with DWP customers or the public when it rushed to settle a lawsuit filed as a result of trouble with billing software. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.

A judge has decided that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will have to sit for deposition in a lawsuit, filed by one of the mayor’s former bodyguards. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.

Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.

The union that represents most LAPD officers says it will not entertain discussions of pay cuts as the city of LA faces a budget crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.  “The Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Police Protective League is unanimous in its belief that its members deserve every penny of compensation that our contract...

The latest public data from the Los Angeles Fire Department shows the number of fires that have burned so far this year has outpaced any other year in recent memory, with a staggering number of fires tied to the city’s homeless population and an ever-increasing portion blamed on arson. As of Sept. 30, 2020 firefighters logged 8,283 fires of all…

The number of building, trash, and brush fires reported in Los Angeles this year continues to explode, with thousands more emergency calls to firefighters than this time last year. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020.

A Chinese company’s Arcadia subsidiary has agreed to pay more than $1 million to resolve allegations that it bribed city officials, including former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, with campaign contributions, foreign travel and Katy Perry concert tickets to ensure support for its downtown building projects, it was announced Wednesday.

Officials are seeing an uptick in fires related to the homeless population. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.

New data from the city of Los Angeles showed a significant increase in the overall number of fires reported in 2020, and the records also revealed a growing portion of those fires were connected to the city’s homeless population. Firefighters responded to 7,422 fires as of this week, compared with 5,223 during the same period in 2019, a 42% increase,…

One business owner in downtown Los Angeles said Wednesday she plans to reopen two retail locations even after she was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly violating the City’s “Safer at Home” order that directed the closure of ‘non-essential’ businesses. Natali Mishali, who operates the DTLA Smoke Shops, said her stores stocked and sold snacks, drinks, and food that...

Federal prosecutors suggested at a hearing Thursday that FBI agents have obtained “a lot” of wiretap recordings that captured evidence of corruption inside LA City Hall, beyond the allegations contained in the indictment of former Councilman Mitch Englander. Englander pleaded not guilty Monday to seven charges that accuse him of lying to the FBI and trying to convince others to…

A Los Angeles police officer who works in an area populated by many homeless people is joining his wife in suing the city after he contracted typhus on the job in 2019 and later infected his wife. Like his wife, Barbara Wong, Officer Franklin Chen filed suit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging negligence and that a dangerous condition…

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Two-thousand trees planted — 1,500 to go. The City of Los Angeles is committed to expanding the canopy that will cover various communities in Baldwin Hills.