The Latest Breaking News from Karen Bass

LOS ANGELES -- With forecasts calling for warmer-than-average temperatures across California this summer, officials in Los Angeles are vowing to do more to protect residents from extreme heat, one of the deadliest consequences of human-caused climate change.

From Venice to downtown Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program moved some 1,200 homeless people out of encampments into motels and hotels during her first four months in office. But only 70 people have moved from those temporary accommodations into permanent housing, Bass said recently. That’s a number…

Democratic leaders in major U.S. cities are finding themselves politically squeezed when it comes to addressing homelessness

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council signed off on Mayor Karen Bass’ plan for expanding the Police Department on Thursday, approving a budget that calls for the hiring of about 1,000 officers over the next fiscal year and record spending to fight homelessness.

Five major U.S. cities and the state of California will receive federal help to get unsheltered residents into permanent housing

After a records request, the LAPD released the names and photos of 9,000 cops, including undercover officers in dangerous assignments

Democrats will flock to Schakowsky’s ‘Ultimate Power Lunch’ in Chicago because it is a tremendous professional, personal and political networking opportunity

Mayor Karen Bass says she told President Biden he could significantly reduce homelessness in the U.S. by helping to find shelter for the roughly 40,000 people in LA who are currently unhoused.

For the first time, Black mayors run the four largest cities in the U.S. Here’s what they have to say.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has died at age 92

Mayor Karen Bass' push to increase the number of police officers on the streets of L.A. may be viewed by some as a betrayal of progressive ideology, but the reality is people are afraid — and justifiably so.