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Another installment of the CicLAvia open-streets festival was held Sunday — this one celebrating UCLA’s 100th birthday.

It’s a crisis. That’s how one San Francisco supervisor describes the opioid epidemic the city is facing.

A cleanup is scheduled to take place Monday in the downtown Civic Center area and people living on the street were told to remove all personal belongings from the street, according to a flyer posted by the Los Angeles City Sanitation Department.

Multiple protesters dropped to the ground on San Francisco’s Market Street Sunday morning, halting the city’s world-famous Pride parade for about one hour as they spoke out against police and corporations being involved in Pride festivities.

Police circulated security images of an attacker sought in the killing of a man during a robbery at a Hollywood taco truck and noted that a $50,000 reward is up for grabs.

Rats crawling through the streets of Los Angeles are feasting on piles of uncollected trash. The NBC4 I-Team exposed the problem recently, and the city vowed to clean it up, but we found evidence the city’s rodent population is growing pushing rats and possible diseases closer to homes and businesses.

Even after trash cleanup attempts by the city, experts say LA’s rat problem is out of control and a threat to public health.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors asked public health officials Tuesday to develop a communicable-disease prevention and intervention plan in response to an LAPD employee contracting the bacteria that causes typhoid fever.

An unusual exhibit will open in San Francisco’s Civic Center this week, featuring the faces of dozens of Bay Area Holocaust survivors blown up to larger-than-life proportions.

The union was feeling the Bern in Westwood. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 4 Wednesday, March 20, 2019.

Although an employee believes she contracted typhus from fleas in her City Hall East office, no traces of the insects have been found in any city government buildings in the Civic Center, according to a report presented to the Los Angeles City Council Friday.

Leon Nyarecha tearfully recounts the day his younger brother died while in Los Angeles County Sheriff’s custody at the Men’s Central Jail last June.

Homeless advocates who sued Orange County to prevent enforcement of anti-camping ordinances have filed another federal lawsuit naming several south county cities that they say have done nothing to solve homelessness or have stood in the way of solutions.

Anticipating a city council motion outlining steps to combat a Los Angeles City Hall infestation of rats and fleas linked to typhus disease, the city’s personnel department announced steps including additional cleaning and removal of trash from the civic center.
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A veteran Los Angeles City Hall official is one of the latest victims of an epidemic of the infectious disease typhus that continues to worsen across LA County. For months, LA County public health officials have said typhus is mainly hitting the homeless population. But deputy LA City Attorney Liz Greenwood, a veteran prosecutor, tells NBC4 she was diagnosed with...

Heavy rain, snow and wind pummeled much of California Thursday, causing at least five deaths, leaving thousands without power and forcing wildfire victims threatened by floods to flee their homes.

A San Diego County Superior Court judge Tuesday granted an injunction preventing a nonprofit group from operating a needle-exchange program in Orange County.

Malibu’s Jefferson “Zuma Jay” Wagner is now out of the hospital after trying to defend his home from the Woolsey Fire. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018.

People are using air purifiers and filters to make their homes safe again. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.

The Black Eyed Peas and Native American rock group Redbone will perform Monday at the grand finale concert for the first celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day in Los Angeles. Los Angeles voted last year to eliminate Columbus Day as an official city holiday and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day.