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Important spots in Los Angeles are closed for safety, urging people to avoid unnecessary travel.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass returns to the city after a diplomatic mission, expected to resume leadership responsibilities and engage with the community.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council will not hold its regularly scheduled meeting Friday amid calls for the resignation of two members, acting Council President Mitch O’Farrell said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — The chorus of civic leaders calling for L.A. City Council members Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo to step down from the City Council grew louder Monday, as U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, Mayor Eric Garcetti and both mayoral candidates called on the embattled politicians to…

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez stepped down from her powerful position Monday morning, a day after incendiary leaked audio exploded into public. It appears that she will remain on the 15-member legislative body.

She called the Black child of Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin "changuito," or "a monkey," who gets carried around like a purse. "Su negrito, like on the side."

The more you listen to it, the worse it gets.

LOS ANGELES — Three Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official held a conversation last fall that included racist remarks, derisive statements about their colleagues and council President Nury Martinez saying a white councilman handled his young Black son as though he were…

LOS ANGELES — On Monday morning, a plane circled above Hollywood Boulevard trailing a banner that wished a happy birthday to Nipsey Hussle.