A single Los Angeles Police Department officer has been sent to face an internal trial board after he was allegedly caught falsifying gang data about innocent citizens he stopped. Chief Michel Moore said in a statement Friday the purpose of the internal trial, called a Board of Rights, would be “removal” of the officer, meaning termination. Moore’s first disciplinary...

The intersection of Commerce Avenue and Valmont Street in Tujunga was dedicated Saturday as William Saroyan Square, honoring the prolific Armenian-American writer of plays, short stories and novels.

Tireless work by firefighters and dying winds Saturday led to the lifting of evacuation orders, indicating that the worst might be over for homeowners who spent harrowing hours of uncertainty in shelters as a wildfire burned in communities north of Los Angeles.

Several wildfires smoldering in Southern California have led to poor air quality across the region.

Firefighters are working to protect homes as a fast-moving wildfire spread across parts of the San Fernando Valley, forcing evacuations, threatening thousands of homes and closing major freeways.

The number of complaints filed by the public against the Los Angeles Police Department increased by about 8% last year, compared to the prior year, while the number of arrests went down, according to a report presented to the city Police Commission Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Police Department announced Saturday it has stopped purchasing online advertising from Google after a recruitment ad appeared on a website that has drawn criticism for its content.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating how a recruiting ad ended up on the right wing site Breitbart, as seen on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.

A man accused of engaging in a gunfight with Los Angeles police at a Trader Joe’s store in Silver Lake, leading to the fatal shooting of the assistant manager, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and more than 50 other charges.

Remembrances are planned for across Southern California Wednesday when the nation pauses to honor those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Diaz, 24, was killed in the early morning hours of July 27 in Lincoln Heights, where he had gone with his girlfriend and her two brothers to a taco stand.

Criminal charges were dismissed this week against former Los Angeles Police Department Commander Nicole Mehringer, who was accused of being drunk in public following a traffic incident in Glendale.

Two reputed gang members were charged Tuesday with capital murder stemming from the shooting of off-duty Los Angeles police Officer Juan Jose Diaz in Lincoln Heights amid what investigators say was a 90-minute crime spree that included a separate attempted murder.

Dozens of Los Angeles Police Department officers and detectives mobilized across Los Angeles and Riverside counties early Friday to carry out raids that resulted in the arrests of three suspects in last weekend’s fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer, law enforcement sources told NBCLA.

With his killer still at large, a slain off-duty police officer was honored Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council, which began its meeting with a moment of silence in his memory.

As officers mourned the death of a young LAPD officer killed while out for tacos with his girlfriend, the manhunt for the killer continued Monday. Juan Diaz, 24, was shot and killed early Saturday morning near the Lincoln Heights neighborhood where he grew up.

Flowers and candles were among the items left at a memorial over the weekend for a 24-year-old off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer who was shot and killed, apparently after confronting a group that was vandalizing a Lincoln Heights building.

A Utah man accused of gunning down an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy inside an Alhambra fast-food restaurant an hour after killing a man in downtown Los Angeles pleaded not guilty Monday to double murder, attempted murder and robbery charges.

A service of remembrance is being held Sunday, a year after an officer-involved shooting and standoff in a Silver Lake Trader Joe’s killed an assistant manager.

A city ordinance barring people from sleeping in vehicles parked on residential Los Angeles streets quietly expired at the end of June, and LAPD officers have been instructed to no longer issue citations for the offense.