“Wicked” topped nominations to the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, landing a leading five nominations including best ensemble, and individual nods for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey
January 08, 2025
CNN’s Nick Watt reports from the Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Los Angeles, where thousands of people have been asked to evacuate as a fast-moving wildfire spreads.
January 08, 2025
A rapidly growing wildfire raged across an upscale section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, destroying numerous buildings and creating traffic jams as
January 07, 2025
The affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles has long been a celebrity hideaway and magnet for those drawn to nature’s doorstep not far from the skyline of downtown
January 08, 2025
A 25-year-old man suspected of shooting a pair of security guards during an attempted robbery from the Target store at the FIGat7th shopping mall in downtown Los Angeles was charged Friday with attempted murder and attempted robbery, along with gun-related allegations that could lead to life in prison.
January 03, 2025
Man Attempts to Hijack Self-Driving Taxi in Downtown LA
January 02, 2025
Police say two security guards at a downtown Los Angeles shopping plaza were wounded in a gunfight with a man as they tried to stop him from making off with more than $1,000 of stolen merchandise
December 31, 20242 security guards shot at Target store in downtown Los Angeles by suspected shoplifter, police say
December 31, 2024The cities of Los Angeles and Lomita will be taking ownership of some baseball fields from the Navy's Defense Support Point in San Pedro, it was announced Monday.
December 30, 2024
Once home to Morrison Hotel, historic building in downtown Los Angeles goes up in flames
December 27, 2024A woman was found dead at a bus stop near Koreatown area today, authorities said.
December 27, 2024
A 43-year-old teacher was arrested in Valley Village Thursday on charges relating to the sexual assault of a minor. According to a statement by the Los Angeles Police Department, Colleen Jo Matarico “groomed and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old victim in her classroom, and later convinced the victim to have sexual intercourse in her vehicle.” Matarico has been charged with five counts of lewd acts with a minor, two counts of lewd acts with a minor 14 or 15 years of age, and one count of furnishing marijuana to a minor. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, Matarico is being
November 08, 2024While more and more cities urge police to crack down on homeless people sleeping in parks and streets, Los Angeles has resisted the rush to lead with law
December 13, 2024
Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman who’s been missing for more than three weeks after arriving in Los Angeles on a flight from Maui, has been declared a voluntary missing person, according to Los Angeles police who have videos and photos of her in various locations throughout the city. CNN's Julia Vargas Jones breaks down the timeline.
December 11, 2024
Suspected Bird Flu Detected in Cats That Consumed Recalled Raw Milk in LA Co
December 12, 2024
LA Metro to Suspend `A' Line Service Over Weekend for Construction Work
December 12, 2024
Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi ‘has been found safe,’ after missing for 4 weeks. Here’s a timeline of the case
November 29, 2024
Hannah Kobayashi has been found safe
December 11, 2024
Tentative deal reached to end the Hollywood writers strike. No deal yet for actors
September 25, 2023Two properties belonging to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in Los Angeles and Miami were searched by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press
March 25, 2024
Thieves got away with $30 million in cash from a money storage facility in Los Angeles by breaking into the building on Easter Sunday and cracking the safe
April 04, 2024
An influential pastor and civil rights leader in Los Angeles has died
April 06, 2024
A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed her partner at their Los Angeles apartment Monday then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto the freeway, killing her infant daughter, appeared to be agitated by the impending eclipse
April 10, 2024
Cardi B, Queen Latifah and The Roots will headline concerts celebrating the return of the BET Experience in Los Angeles just days before the 2024 BET Awards
April 15, 2024
A tram accident at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Los Angeles has injured 15 people
April 21, 2024
Groundbreaking on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area is just about here
April 22, 2024
Police say a 30-year-old woman from Hawaii who was reported missing in Los Angeles three weeks ago voluntarily traveled to Mexico
December 03, 2024
A 29-year-old suspect in a break-in at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been charged with burglary and vandalism
April 23, 2024
Officials say 55 people were hurt, two seriously, when a Metro light rail train and a University of Southern California shuttle bus collided in downtown Los Angeles
April 30, 2024
When Jessica Pratt released her debut self-titled album in 2011, the singer-songwriter was critically praised for her austere guitar and hypnotic voice
May 02, 2024
A judge says Beach Boys co-founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to handle his personal and medical decisions
May 09, 2024
Los Angeles County prosecutors say they suspect a crime was committed in the recording of a racist conversation that prompted the city council president to resign
May 11, 2024Security video appears to show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016
May 17, 2024
Police say a Hawaii woman who disappeared after landing in Los Angeles three weeks ago was seen crossing into Mexico alone with her luggage, but has not reached out to her family
December 03, 2024
An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly taking part in a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, last month
May 24, 2024
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers argue he didn't get a fair trial in Los Angeles when he was convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2022
June 08, 2024
A wildfire burning northwest of Los Angeles on Sunday has forced the evacuation of over 1,000 people from a popular outdoor recreation area and burned over 12,000 acres, authorities said.
July 01, 2024Firefighters have increased containment of a large wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles after a weekend of explosive growth along Interstate 5
June 17, 2024
The city of Los Angeles will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit it filed against a local journalist and a technology watchdog group last year for posting the photos and information of hundreds of undercover police officers online
June 17, 2024
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics announced changes to its venue plan that it says will create an estimated $156 million in combined savings and revenue increases
June 21, 2024
The Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted
June 21, 2024
JuJu Watkins has already thought about how special it would be to play for the U.S. in 2028 at the Olympics in her hometown of Los Angeles
June 26, 2024
Killer Mike is expected to avoid charges over a physical altercation that led to his arrest at the Grammys earlier this year after the rapper recently completed community service
June 27, 2024
Fans of Marilyn Monroe have won a battle to preserve her mark on Los Angeles and are a step closer to seeing a towering statue of the silver screen icon remain in Palm Springs
June 27, 2024
The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has dipped slightly, decreasing by about 0.3% since last year as California continues to struggle with the long-running crisis of tens of thousands of people sleeping in cars and encampments
June 28, 2024
The canoe slalom and softball competitions for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will be held in Oklahoma City while athletics will shift to the opening week of the global sporting showcase
June 21, 2024
Deputies quickly respond to mayday call in Port of LA as boat takes on water
July 01, 2024Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other films whose script for "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, has died
July 02, 2024
Two horses were struck and killed by passing vehicles after they ran onto a Los Angeles freeway
July 03, 2024The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics have announced more venue assignments, with the cities of Carson and Long Beach reprising their roles from previous games held in the region
July 12, 2024
Golf will be played at the famed Riviera Country Club, while sailing and water polo will be held in Long Beach, according to an updated venue plan for the 2028
July 12, 2024
The International Golf Federation and LA Olympic organizers are making it official
July 12, 2024Major League Baseball players participating in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics remains a possibility, according to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, though there are many obstacles to Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper playing for a gold medal
July 16, 2024Nominations were announced on Wednesday for the Emmy Awards, the highest honors in television.
July 17, 2024
Angel City is set to become the world's most valuable professional women's sports team after finalising a landmark new ownership agreement with Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and his wife Willow
July 17, 2024
Shannen Doherty finalized her split with husband, Kurt Iswarienko, just hours before her death at age 53
July 18, 2024
Leaving Las Vegas for an on-the-road training camp atmosphere took the Raiders to Los Angeles, where the NFL rules regarding "exclusive home territory" for teams in the market will prohibit fans from
July 22, 2024
Teen dies in 'heinous' killing amid series of Los Angeles street takeovers, LAPD chief says
July 23, 2024
All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman was scratched from the Dodgers starting lineup for a game at Houston and will return to Los Angeles to be with his family, according to manager Dave Roberts
July 26, 2024First lady Jill Biden has praised Paris’ “spectacular” Olympics opening ceremony and looked ahead to how the U.S. can similarly dazzle audiences when the Games are held in Los Angeles in four years
July 27, 2024
Can tech help solve Southern California's homeless crisis
July 28, 2024
Los Angeles is the nation's epicenter of homelessness, where more than 45,000 people live in weather-beaten tent encampments and rusting RVs
July 28, 2024
Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
July 29, 2024San Francisco will ramp up sweeps of homeless encampments under a directive issued days after California Governor Gavin Newsom told cities to begin enforcing laws against
July 31, 2024
Driver in suspected DUI pursuit falls out of car on 10 Freeway in Santa Monica
August 01, 2024LAPD releases photos of suspects involved in fatal shooting of former ‘General Hospital’ actor Johnny Wactor
August 04, 2024
A man charged with sending his 17-year-old son to kill rapper PnB Rock in a Los Angeles restaurant has testified at his trial, angrily declaring he “had nothing to do with it.”
August 05, 2024
For yogis looking for some puppy love to go with their mindfulness, a yoga class in Los Angeles offers gentle stretching alongside nine puppies, many of them
August 06, 2024
5.2 magnitude earthquake near Bakersfield rumbles through Southern California
August 07, 2024
LA Mayor Karen Bass will be presented with the Olympic flag by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo at the closing ceremony of the Paris Games on Sunday in a historic handover
August 09, 2024
The Olympics will always have Paris
August 10, 2024
Snoop Dogg brought out Dr. Dre, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers all performed from a California beachside during the handover to the 2028 Los Angeles Games
August 11, 2024
As the Olympics close in Paris, Los Angeles has now taken the torch
August 12, 2024
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the Los Angeles area
August 12, 2024
The Olympic flag arrived on Monday in Los Angeles, where it will be flown in 2028 when the city hosts the next Summer Games.
August 12, 2024An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 struck the Los Angeles area on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.
August 12, 2024Family and friends of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor are making a public plea for help in finding and convicting his killers
August 13, 2024
Can a city that’s synonymous with freeways and gridlock deliver a car-free Olympic Games? Los Angeles has picked up the torch.
August 21, 2024
Mental health team responding to nonviolent 911 calls expands through Los Angeles
August 26, 2024Officials with L
August 28, 2024
Power cut off to 1,200 homes after a possibly intoxicated man climbs up pole in Sylmar
August 28, 2024Two 18-year-old men charged with killing former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor have pleaded not guilty
August 29, 2024
Doctor charged in connection to Matthew Perry’s ketamine case appears in court
August 30, 2024
Attorneys say the city of Los Angeles will pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit by relatives of a woman killed by police during a shootout with a gunman at a Trader Joe’s store six years ago
August 30, 2024Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history for many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials died Sunday
September 02, 2024
Los Angeles City Council asks for further testing of lead-contaminated tap water in Watts
September 05, 2024Los Angeles cannot compete with the iconic landmarks of the Paris Olympics but LA28 Games organisers are confident the Hollywood factor and the American city's
September 06, 2024
VA ordered to build thousands more homes for veterans on West Los Angeles campus
September 06, 2024
CNN’s Nick Watt reports on how it took decades of activism for veterans to finally obtain land it had been intended to be a home for disabled service members since the 1880s.
September 06, 2024
Los Angeles, you’re next
September 09, 2024
Apocalyptic-looking plumes of smoke filled skies east of Los Angeles as firefighters battled three major wildfires that erupted amid a blistering heat wave
September 10, 2024
An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 shook the southern California city of Malibu and other parts of the Los Angeles region, the U.S.
September 12, 2024Wildfires that have burned dozens of mountain homes near Los Angeles slowed on Thursday with cooler temperatures but authorities warned the blazes still threatened suburbs.
September 12, 2024
Wildfires around Los Angeles have burned rapidly in the past week after vegetation growth and record heat blamed on climate change, and Southern California blazes could get
September 18, 2024
The Los Angeles area is seeing more cases of people with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, a year after the first such case was reported in California
September 18, 2024
A man convicted of sending his 17-year-old son into a restaurant to rob and kill rapper PnB Rock has been sentenced to 31 years to life in prison
September 23, 2024
Authorities say a passenger was killed after a gunman hijacked a city bus in Los Angeles, leading to a slow police chase through downtown before the suspect was eventually arrested
September 25, 2024
One person is dead after a gunman hijacked a Los Angeles city bus and fled from police on a chase that lasted more than an hour. The driver and a passenger were safely rescued and the suspect was taken into custody.
September 25, 2024Recycling company indicted for allegedly dumping hazardous waste on Los Angeles County school
September 27, 2024In a time when streaming and a pandemic have radically transformed cinema consumption over the past decade, a growing number of mostly younger people are contributing to a renaissance of the Los Angeles independent movie theater scene
September 29, 2024
A California man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for shooting and wounding two Jewish men outside Los Angeles synagogues last year
September 30, 2024
Dozens of suspected White supremacist gang members arrested in Los Angeles area in domestic terrorism investigation
October 02, 2024Prosecutors in Los Angeles say they are reviewing new evidence in the case of the Menendez brothers to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago
October 03, 2024
Los Angeles authorities are reviewing new evidence that could lead to the release or a new trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the Beverly Hills brothers
October 03, 2024
A former county sheriff has been selected to lead the Los Angeles Police Department, taking charge of the nation's third-largest police force
October 04, 2024
Authorities say five people are dead after a small plane crashed on Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast
October 09, 2024
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office says it does not plan to file criminal charges against two people who were investigated in connection with the unlawful recording of a racist conversation that rocked City Hall in 2022 and prompted the city council president to resign after the audio was leaked
October 15, 2024
A series of earthquakes has Southern California shook. Is a big one coming?
October 16, 2024
A$AP Rocky is set to go to trial in January on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator outside a Hollywood hotel in 2021
October 22, 2024
The city of Los Angeles is mourning the death of Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who starred for the Dodgers in the early 1980s
October 23, 2024
Los Angeles district attorney says he’ll recommend resentencing in decades-old Menendez brothers’ murder case
October 24, 2024
Prosecutors are recommending that Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents in Beverly Hills
October 24, 2024
Erik and Lyle Menendez still have a long way to go before they can walk out of prison, even though the Los Angeles County district attorney has recommended their life-without-parole sentence be thrown out and the brothers be resentenced and immediately eligible for parole
October 25, 2024
"It was the best moment of my life," says 10-year-old Dodger fan who caught Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam
October 29, 2024Prominent hip-hop producer Metro Boomin has been accused of rape in a lawsuit
October 30, 2024
Rowdy crowds took to the streets in Los Angeles after the Dodgers won the World Series, setting a city bus on fire, breaking into stores and setting off firecrackers
October 31, 2024
Metro bus set on fire, businesses looted and arrests made during Dodgers Los Angeles celebration
October 31, 2024Authorities say U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have seized more than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport
November 29, 2024
California man who went missing for 25 years found after sister sees his picture in the news
November 27, 2024
Missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi long pursued passion for art – even on the trip that led to her disappearance
November 28, 2024
Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman has won election as Los Angeles County district attorney
November 04, 2024A Southern California wildfire has destroyed 132 structures in less than two days
November 07, 2024
Music giant Quincy Jones has been laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, a week after his death at age 91
November 11, 2024
Authorities said firefighters battled fierce, howling winds and rescued people as a fast-moving Southern California wildfire exploded in size
November 10, 2024
Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to anyone who wants a ride around Los Angeles, marking another milestone in the evolution of self-driving car technology since the company began as a secret project at Google 15 years ago
November 12, 2024
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a "sanctuary city" ordinance to protect immigrants living in the city, a policy that would prohibit
November 19, 2024
A grand jury indicted Phillips 66 for violating the federal Clean Water Act by illegally discharging 790,000 gallons of industrial wastewater into Los
November 21, 2024
The incoming district attorney for Los Angeles County, Nathan Hochman, says in an interview with The Associated Press that his first task in office is to eliminate the “pro-criminal blanket policies” of one of California’s most high-profile progressive prosecutors, George Gascón
November 15, 2024
A law enforcement consulting group says the University of California, Los Angeles should develop clear plans and policies, communication lines and decision-making authority for major protests
November 15, 2024
Family hasn’t heard from Hawaii woman in over a week and now fears she may have been abducted
November 19, 2024
Family members of missing Maui woman suspect 'someone has taken her'
November 19, 2024LA City Council to consider adopting "sanctuary city" ordinance
November 19, 2024Los Angeles officials move to establish city as a sanctuary for immigrants and LGBTQ youth in advance of Trump’s return to the White House
November 20, 2024
LA County "utterly failed" to provide safety at juvenile halls, says California attorney general
November 20, 2024Volunteers have joined a search for Hannah Kobayashi, a 30-year-old woman from Hawaii who went missing in Los Angeles more than two weeks ago after not making a connecting flight to New York
November 25, 2024
What we know about missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi and the death of her father
November 26, 2024
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness