The USNS Mercy arrived in Los Angeles on Friday morning to help hospitals strained under the influx of coronavirus patients.

The USNS Mercy is now taking patients. As seen on NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, 2020.

The USNS Mercy, a Navy hospital ship docked in the Port of Los Angeles, opened its doors to its first patients Sunday, officials announced. Requested by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the USNS Mercy Hospital ship will serve as a referral hospital in LA and carries trained medical workers and resources that will take care of non-COVID-19 related illnesses. The ship will…

Nearly a million SoCal jobs depend on shipping through the neighboring ports of LA and Long Beach. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 26, 2020. 

The Port of Los Angeles announced Monday that it has broken ground on the $33 million LA Waterfront town square and promenade, which will connect the downtown harbor to the future San Pedro Public Market. “Today’s groundbreaking represents an important step toward realizing our vision of a thriving LA Waterfront,” said Jaime Lee, the president of the Los Angeles Board…

Firefighters called to put out a fire aboard a 35-foot cabin cruiser at Terminal Island Monday morning found a woman dead inside, authorities said.

The parents of a 1-year-old child with special needs are suing Los Angeles County, alleging their son died in 2018 because his foster mother was inadequately trained and failed to give him emergency care at her Valinda home when he was having breathing problems.

Jury selection began Wednesday for the federal fraud trial of a Hawthorne man accused of intentionally driving his two severely autistic sons off a pier at the Port of Los Angeles to collect on accidental death policies.

The head of the Port of Los Angeles Tuesday gave an apprehensive report about the effects the trade war between the United States and China could have on the local shipping yard.

Police arrested 31 supporters of Kaiser Permanente workers for failure to disperse as they blocked an intersection near its Los Angeles Medical Center today in a Labor Day act of civil disobedience, authorities said.

The first of a half-dozen ships have arrived at the Port of Los Angeles for LA Fleet Week.

California regulators have reopened funding applications for marijuana social equity programs after unspecified delays.

Los Angeles Port Police say increased drug smuggling patrols led to a seizure of about 1,200 pounds of marijuana from a vessel at a public boat launch ramp.

The Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday formally started the search for contractors interested in designing, installing, operating and maintaining its planned Cyber Resilience Center, which will serve as a clearinghouse for cyber threat information-sharing across companies and stakeholders at the country’s busiest trade gateway.

A Hawthorne man accused of intentionally driving his two severely autistic sons off a pier at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro to collect on accidental death policies will be tried in October in federal court on multiple fraud charges before he faces capital murder charges in state court, attorneys said Monday.

Capital murder charges were filed Wednesday against a Hawthorne man accused of intentionally driving his two severely autistic sons off a pier at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro to collect on accidental death insurance policies.

The City Council vetoed a permit on Friday, that would have allowed one of the Port of Los Angeles’ largest shipping companies to introduce electric-powered automated cargo handlers, which dockworkers fear will cost them jobs.

A man was killed and another worker was seriously injured in an industrial accident at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro Wednesday, officials said.