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Citywide, the number of permits for EV chargers has risen from 985 in 2020 to 3,689 in 2024—marking five consecutive years of ...
Crosstown LA Traffic, Crime, Air QualityWill easier charging be enough to convince more drivers to switch?
As COVID-19 precautions relaxed last year and people returned to offices, restaurants and shopping malls, crime across Los Angeles began to surge, hitting its highest level in five years. Throughout ...
(Image generated with MidJourney) Real estate across Los Angeles County has been on a tear, with the assessed value of residential property rising, on average, by 54% over the past eight years. But ...
GIF by Ivy Tsang The county has more people, is more diverse and wealthier. Its roads are more congested and its housing is more scarce. And its population has become older, like the rest of the ...
We counted all the reported accidents on 24 segments of Los Angeles freeways for a year. Then we calculated the number of accidents per mile on each segment. Here’s what we found: Most Accidents Per ...
On the first day of 2020, the unresponsive body of Corinna Ortega, a Latina woman, was discovered by a friend in a tent in Parnell Park in Whittier. The coroner would rule that Corinna, 22, died of a ...
News reports about retail theft were inescapable in 2023, and when the year came to an end Los Angeles had entered unprecedented territory: There were 11,945 shoplifting reports in the city, according ...
(A row of empty storefronts on Fairfax Ave.) Fewer new businesses are opening in Los Angeles than during any period in at least the past 20 years, raising the specter of dwindling tax receipts at the ...
Cash and cannabis make for tempting targets…Just before closing time on Feb. 13, three men and a woman walked into California Cannabis Melrose Dispensary in Larchmont posing as customers. Once inside, ...
Overall crime in Los Angeles fell nearly 11% last year. As the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the region, there were 192,438 crimes reported in the city, down from the 215,763 in 2019, ...