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On Tuesday night, residents packed the Mar Vista Recreation Center for a community meeting that, on its face, concerned a modest update to a youth sports facility. In reality, it

The 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway this week, with thousands of volunteers deployed across the city and county over three nights to tally people living outdoors, in

Traci Park’s recent interview with the Westside Current reveals a councilmember on the defensive. As scrutiny intensifies across housing, homelessness, immigration, climate, labor, and tenant policy, Park appears to be

At a January 15 meeting of Metro’s Executive Management Committee, Metro quietly advanced a legislative position that would weaken a state law whose central purpose is to take land use

One year after the Pacific Palisades fire devastated entire neighborhoods, Los Angeles is confronting what the disaster revealed and what has gone unlearned since. Thousands of residents lost homes and

Los Angeles is on the brink of a new homelessness surge, and this time the trigger is not a sudden economic shock but a deliberate federal retreat from housing assistance.

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