As crowds have flocked to local hiking trials and beaches, failing to maintain prescribed social distancing to combat the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Los Angeles area parks, piers and beaches have been shutting down to slow the spread of the virus. The gates off Mulholland Drive were locked early Wednesday, but people could be seen in the park after either breaking…

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said the crowds were too big to be safe over the weekend, so Runyon Canyon will be shut down. Robert Kovacik reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, 2020.

No arrests were reported in the shooting death of an up-and-coming rapper overnight in the Hollywood Hills. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News.

A prominent family therapist and former fiancée of comedian Drew Carey appears to have been strangled before she was thrown off the third-floor balcony of her Hollywood Hills apartment, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Thursday. An ex-boyfriend is facing charges.

The ex-boyfriend accused in the death of marriage therapist Amie Harwick was charged Wednesday with murder with the special circumstance allegation of lying in wait, which would make him eligible for the death penalty, the Los Angeles District Attorney said in a statement.

New York rapper Pop Smoke was killed in a shooting during a home invasion early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, multiple sources tell NBC News.

The former boyfriend of a Hollywood Hills therapist has been arrested after the doctor was found critically injured in her home Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced.

Family and marriage therapist Amie Harwick died due to blunt force injuries to her head and upper body, according to a coroner’s report released Tuesday.

A city committee put forward a motion that would allow cities to limit which tour buses can use, citing safety issues. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020.

A Los Angeles City Council committee advanced a motion Tuesday that would give the city’s Department of Transportation the authority to limit which streets tour buses can use on their routes. The issue for some residents of the Hollywood Hills, who spoke at thecouncil’s Trade, Travel and Tourism Committee meeting, is that the buses cause long traffic delays, and sometimes...

A long stretch of Mulholland Drive will be closed into Friday afternoon after a tanker truck rolled onto its side, spilling a substance commonly used in pesticides onto the canyon road in the Hollywood Hills. The driver suffered minor injuries in the crash near 8350 Mullholland Drive, just east of the Fryman Canyon roadside overlook. The tanker was carrying 500…

Airbnb Monday announced that it is removing 28 properties from listings in the Hollywood Hills identified by the Los Angeles Police Department as creating a substantial neighborhood nuisance. “LAPD provided Airbnb with information pertaining to ‘chronic party houses,’ some of which have generated citations and cease-and-desist orders,” Airbnb said in a statement. For the 28 listings identified by Airbnb, all…

Airbnb has taken several of the homes that LAPD identified as being used to throw parties off of their website, one resident said. Darsha Philips reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6, 2020.

The Los Angeles Police Department and Airbnb are teaming up to crack down on party houses, with 28 listings removed from the site. Kim Tobin reported on NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020.

A mudslide threatened homes in the rain-saturated Hollywood Hills Thursday Jan. 17, 2019 after a week of storms in Southern California.

Three Los Angeles County restaurants were featured on a recent list of the “50 Best Restaurants for A Date in America for 2019,” a collection compiled by restaurant reservation service OpenTable.

Los Angeles police took Ronnie Ortiz-Magro in to custody after respond to a domestic violence report. Video broadcast Friday Oct. 4, 2019 on Today in LA.