During her first week in office three years ago, Mayor Karen Bass issued a sweeping directive to speed up affordable housing applications. Now, that plan is permanent. The…
Read more L.A. City Council passes ordinance to streamline affordable housingContamination of key Los Angeles waterways such as the Santa Monica Bay, Los Angeles Harbor and Echo Park Lake due to the spread of toxic chemicals is at…
Read more Los Angeles settles with Monsanto for $35 million over PCBs in waterwaysYsabel Jurado, 34, a lifelong community member of Highland Park, and openly out candidate, is running against current Councilmember Kevin De Leon for Council District 14, the most…
Read more Bisexual boss movesAfter a year-long battle, Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood home has been saved from destruction. On Wednesday, the L.A. City Council unanimously voted to designate the Spanish Colonial-style residence as…
Read more L.A. City Council declares Marilyn Monroe house a cultural landmark, saving it from destructionAfter a lengthy discussion, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to prohibit the eviction of tenants whose rental assistance applications have been approved but who have not…
Read more L.A. City Council votes to protect tenants while they await rental assistanceAfter a years-long neighborhood battle against an oil drilling site in South Los Angeles, a local nonprofit has purchased the now-demolished facility and plans to transform it into…
Read more Nonprofit plans to transform a former oil drilling site in South L.A. into affordable housingFor Cindy Montañez, the seeds of her drive to fight for her community were planted before she was even born. Her grandfather, a miner in the Mexican state…
Read more Cindy Montañez, pioneering political and environmental leader, dies at 49
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