LAist on MSN2d
As LA veers toward a financial crisis, $320M in liability payouts play a big role
The city of Los Angeles is expected to pay at least that much in settlements and judgments this fiscal year. An LAist ...
Los Angeles Magazine on MSN2d
Are Massive Lawsuit Settlements Pushing L.A. Toward a Financial Emergency?
As city settlements near $320 million this year—more than triple what was budgeted—officials warn of approaching crisis ...
CBS News21d
Three hospitalized after explosion at East LA business
Three people were hospitalized after an explosion at a business in East Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. It happened just after 3:20 p.m. in the 4200 block of Olympic Boulevard, according to the ...
NBC Los Angeles21d
Three injured in gas explosion inside East LA business
Three people were injured following a gas explosion inside a business in East Los Angeles on Sunday. A gas leak and explosion were reported to authorities around 3:21 p.m. The explosion occurred ...
LAist2d
LA's liability payouts
The city of Los Angeles is expected to pay at least ... than $37 million in just two cases — the LAPD bomb squad fireworks explosion that injured more than two dozen people and displaced ...
Los Angeles Times26d
The reported costs of the Los Angeles fires are staggering. The hidden costs are worse
Destroyed homes, soaring insurance premiums and forest management costs put the price of the Los Angeles fires in the hundreds of billions of dollars. But these staggering figures mask a darker ...
Wall Street Journal8d
Rebuilding Los Angeles Is California’s Economic Moment of Truth
The charred landscape around Los Angeles presents a major test. January’s wildfires turned more than 16,000 buildings in the Altadena and Pacific Palisades into toxic ash. These are largely ...
Los Angeles Times21d
Despite rumors of a massive immigration sweep in Los Angeles, numbers don’t add up
For days, rumors that the federal government was planning a massive immigration enforcement sweep in Los Angeles County on Sunday had put officials on alert and cast a pall over many immigrant ...