Residents of the Pacific Palisades reacted Wednesday to news of the arrest of an alleged arsonist in the January 7 Palisades Fire by noting that the arrest raises more questions about city and state fire responses.
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) released its official after-action report on the Palisades Fire on Wednesday — and it completely omits any mention of the empty Santa Ynez reservoir during the fire.
The alleged suspect behind the Pacific Palisades fire in the Los Angeles area at the beginning of the year reportedly donated to former President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli
A man was arrested Tuesday as a suspect in setting the deadly Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles that claimed 12 lives and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in January.
Monday evening flights into multiple major cities were delayed as the government shutdown continued, just hours after the Department of Transportation (DOT) warned that the funding halt has led to stressed-out air traffic controllers calling out sick as they wait to get paid again.
The volunteer leader of the rebuilding effort for the city of Malibu, California, which was hit hard by the Palisades Fire in January, resigned in protest this week over the slow pace of permits to rebuild homes.
The far-left Wall Street Journal reports that at the end of 2024, there were only 100,000 motion picture jobs in Los Angeles County, compared to 142,000 two years earlier. That’s a 30 percent collapse.
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara spent lavishly on travel across the country and around the world, billing taxpayers for California Highway Patrol protection, while missing key meetings in the state.
Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) said the Trump administration wanted to “go in primarily inner city communities and shoot people.”
The Los Angeles County supervisors blasted a $1.9 million report Tuesday on the reasons for the catastrophic failure of a local evacuation system, whose delays likely contributed to 18 deaths during wildfires in January.
New apartment construction in Los Angeles has all but shut down, thanks in part to Measure ULA, the so-called “mansion tax” that applies to all buildings, including apartments, that sell for $5.3 million or more.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has written to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to ask for an accounting of how the State of California has spent federal funding his department allocated for wildfire prevention.
Actor Sylvester Stallone confessed that he has no regrets changing out California for Florida, saying it fits his personality better.
An “after-action” report prepared for Los Angeles County found this week that the county’s alert and evacuation systems suffered from weaknesses that led to disaster in the Palisades and Eaton fires in January.
Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Meija said Wednesday that the city had wasted millions of dollars on outside audits of its homelessness program rather than using his office for free — then ignored the results.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass withdrew a legislative proposal this week to repeal Measure ULA, a so-called “mansion tax” that has undermined the housing market and slowed rebuilding in fire-ravaged areas.
A leftist celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in a video that is making the rounds online.
A California man who was charged on Monday for allegedly using a dating app to meet and murder men is previously accused of wearing a mask to appear white in dozens of robberies.
President Donald Trump, a staunch champion of law and order, has made public safety a critical focal point of his agenda thus far in his presidency, evidenced by a number of actions he has taken to crack down on crime.
The Los Angeles Police Department found a dead body inside an impounded Tesla registered to singer D4vd after responding to reports of “foul odor.”
Democrats of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are comparing the Supreme Court’s recent order permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enforce federal immigration law in Los Angeles, California, to Plessy v. Ferguson which endorsed racial segregation.
SCOTUS has granted a request to override a lower court’s ruling that barred ICE agents from carrying out federal immigration enforcement.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is sounding the alarm on the public safety risks posed by sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States. In Part Two of an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Lyons detailed how local governments that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement are endangering communities and forcing ICE agents into increasingly dangerous operations.
A dealer dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” pleaded guilty to supplying the drugs that killed “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, when she appeared in a California court on Wednesday.
Wildfires destroyed historic buildings in California this week as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was out of the state on personal travel — the latest example of the governor being absent from his post during an emergency.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said a federal judge ruled President Donald Trump illegally deployed National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles because the Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement.
A California tow truck driver is facing federal charges in Los Angeles after he is seen towing off an Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrol vehicle. A video posted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California shows the emergency lights in operation and the driver hauls it away.
Judge Charles Breyer, a senior judge on the federal bench for the Northern District of California, ruled Monday that President Donald Trump exceeded his powers in deploying the military to Los Angeles.
Actress Justine Bateman ripped the mayors of Chicago and Los Angeles for wasting their time on MSNBC instead of actually doing their job.
Federal law enforcement officers and agents made their 5,000th arrests of criminal aliens in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The law enforcement actions in the illegal alien sanctuary city led to the removal of gang members, child predators, and murderers, she said. Criminal alien 5,000 was identified as a convicted drug trafficker and aggravated felon from Mexico who had been previously deported.
President Donald Trump slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday over the slow pace of rebuilding after the January wildfires in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Nas X was charged Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.
Music legend Lionel Richie was shocked on Saturday when his home was targeted by a brazen burglar while he was home in Los Angeles.
President Donald Trump responded to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), who invited the president on Thursday to “walk the streets” of Baltimore, calling for the governor to clean up the “out of control, crime ridden” city.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) criticized President Donald Trump for saying his administration is looking at cracking down on crime in Chicago.
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Ric Grenell stated that he made a push in the Oval Office that President Donald Trump “move Los Angeles up a little bit more and try
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is demanding that ICE end all worksite raids “at fruit stands and car washes” in the sanctuary city.
A semi-truck transporting eight Tesla EVs caught fire on the 5 Freeway in Los Angeles, leading to extensive road closures and significant traffic disruptions on Saturday evening. The Los Angeles Fire Department has not disclosed the cause of the inferno that required a massive team of firefighters to put out.
President Donald Trump knocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, over the slow pace of rebuilding after the Palisades and Eaton Fires, which occurred in January.
No one seems to be in charge in Los Angeles, with planning for the Summer Olympic Games in 2028 stalling, and union and business leaders at each other’s throats, according to an analysis published Sunday in Politico.
