Firefighters in Orange County are investigating the cause of a house fire that forced a couple and another adult to evacuate their home early Tuesday morning.A neighbor captured…
Read more Couple escapes house fire in Orange CountyDuring 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 housingA unique suspect was taken into custody after showing off impressive speed on Interstate 40.On Tuesday, Nov. 11, officers were called to the area of I-40 and the…
Read more Pig caught on busy interstate after police foot chaseFirefighters battle blaze at Orlando apartment complex; 7 residents displaced WESH TWO NEWS STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. I’M ALAN CAMPBELL AND I’M MEREDITH MCDONOUGH.…
Read more Firefighters battle blaze at Orlando apartment complex; 7 residents displacedA person was pulled from a submerged vehicle in Lake Hayes on Monday night, according to the Seminole County Fire Department.The incident was reported as a water rescue…
Read more Person pulled from submerged vehicle in Seminole County lake, officials sayLos Angeles landlords may soon be required to keep rental units cool — or at least make it possible for tenants to do so. County supervisors last month…
Read more In face of extreme heat, L.A. may require landlords to keep their rentals coolGov. Gavin Newsom Thursday signed a package of bills designed to alleviate the state’s housing affordability crisis. The new laws aim to boost the availability of housing in…
Read more In an effort to create more affordable homes, Gov. Newsom signs package of housing billsAfter months of hearings, a federal judge last month ruled that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs discriminates against homeless veterans whose disability compensation makes them ineligible for…
Read more After half a century of grievances, veterans’ housing demands on West L.A. VA campus go to trialSam Andreano is currently putting the finishing touches on his split-lot property in Whittier. He’s a guinea pig for state Senate Bill 9, a housing law that allows…
Read more As court overturns a lot-splitting law, SB 9, one early adopter asks whyAlexa Castelvecchi was glad when she and her roommates found their new apartment about a year ago, in a modern building in Hollywood with a big, sleek kitchen…
Read more In L.A., thousands of newer apartments have rent caps. Tenants don’t always know.Nearly a year ago, every tenant at the massive Westside apartment complex Barrington Plaza was served with an eviction notice by their landlord, who said the residents of…
Read more Is the eviction of hundreds of renters from Barrington Plaza legal? A court case to decide is now underway.A jury this week awarded $11.5 million to a former Los Angeles police K-9 handler who sued the city alleging that his supervisors retaliated and discriminated against him…
Read more Jurors award $11.5 million to former LAPD K9 handler who claimed discrimination over Samoan heritageRecently released government data hammered home what we have known for at least a year: A national housing shortage, not broad-based price increases, is driving inflation. Inflation over…
Read more Opinion: Inflation isn’t the real problem for the U.S. economy. The housing shortage isMost renter protection programs launched during the pandemic in Los Angeles have expired, and tenants who couldn’t pay rent due to economic hardships brought on by the COVID-19…
Read more What L.A. renters should know now that COVID tenant protections are goneLast month YIMBY Law, a nonprofit, pro-housing advocacy group, sued the City of Los Angeles on behalf of a private developer seeking to construct a 360-unit apartment building…
Read more Opinion: Why is L.A. still letting single-family homeowners block solutions to the housing crisis?In 2022, not long after a new owner bought the Highland Park rental home where Ana Lopez, 66, lives with her husband, the tenants began receiving offers to…
Read more Would you take cash to leave a rent-controlled apartment? Data show it happens often in L.A.As part of an ongoing Metro effort to build housing and community around transportation hubs, a new mixed-use development dubbed District NoHo is coming to North Hollywood’s Metro…
Read more 'Game-changer for the Valley': Almost 1,500 new housing units to be built at North Hollywood Metro stationElizabeth Hirschhorn, the Brentwood tenant who did not pay rent for her luxury Airbnb rental for 570 days, moved out of the unit on Friday. The move was…
Read more Elizabeth Hirschhorn moves out of Brentwood Airbnb after 570 rent-free days. She said she had a right to stayTACOMA, WA—Claiming the defective unit was a game changer, local man Ralph Keizer had to admit Friday that the air fryer that burned down his house did a…
Read more Man Has To Admit Air Fryer That Burned Down House Did Pretty Good Job On Tater TotsHOUSTON — A man who has been accused of illegally having a gun at the time that rapper Takeoff was fatally shot last month following a private party…
Read more Man seen at Takeoff’s fatal shooting facing weapons charge
