David Zahniser covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the newsroom in 2007 and previously wrote on local government for the Claremont Courier, Pasadena Star-News, the Daily Breeze, the L.A. Weekly and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is a graduate of Pomona College and lives in Los Angeles.
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An LAPD spokesperson said it was too soon to say whether three shootings, which took place within a mile of each other, were related.
City officials turned over a batch of revealing text messages from Mayor Karen Bass during her return to the U.S. But one name was missing: her acting mayor, Marqueece Harris-Dawson.
The L.A. City Council is weighing a plan to increase trash fees by 56% for single-family homes and duplexes, while doubling the fee for apartments with three or four units.
The chattering among the city’s political class about potential competitors has grown louder. But it’s still unclear whether anyone will mount a serious challenge to an incumbent who still wields considerable clout.
The Homelessness Fraud and Corruption Task Force will investigate potential fraud and corruption involving local homelessness funds, with U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli saying there will be arrests if federal laws have been broken.
The debate over the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has brought the city and county back to a familiar place: divided over strategies for fighting homelessness.
Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, announced her resignation Friday.
The plan would move more than $300 million and hundreds of workers out of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority and into a new county department.
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is looking to pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of LAHSA, a move that unnerves some at L.A. City Hall.