The Latest Breaking News from Karen Bass

Public policy and common perception have long tied the road to homelessness with mental illness and drug addiction.

LOS ANGELES — On Google Earth it looks like a stunning opportunity: six acres of vacant land surrounded by single-family homes in a West Valley neighborhood.

A Los Angeles County coroner's report says a teacher who was repeatedly shocked with a Taser by Los Angeles police died from an enlarged heart and cocaine use

The 61-year-old driver was stabbed multiple times at a bus stop in the suburb of Woodland Hills

‘For so many Angelenos, our transit operators are a part of their everyday lives,’ mayor says

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.