My colleague Matt Welch has recorded an interview with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass for his Fifth Column podcast, which is well worth a listen for lots of reasons. Most relevant for this newsletter is the ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' persistent cowardice on housing. The Department of Justice's antitrust settlement with RealPage. The ROAD to Housing Act's frosty receptions in the House. My colleague ...

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: Pressure is mounting on Los Angeles leaders to speed post-wildfire rebuilding, but they’re not exactly getting the heartwarming narratives they could use to tout their efforts.

The home comes with a catch: no one can buy it. But it suggests what’s possible as California tries to make rebuilding easier ...

The long wait is over! Popular coffee chain, Dutch Bros, has officially opened its first Los Angeles location.

Representative Robert Garcia is taking his oversight show on the road, collaborating with Los Angeles officials in the most wide-ranging examination of the Trump administration’s misdeeds to date.

Some are wondering with housing advocate Rae Huang now in the 2026 race for mayor. The deputy director of affordable housing group Housing Now aims to unseat Karen Bass, with an agenda that isn’t far ...

More than $7 billion in federal funds have been issued to California since January, when the Palisades and Eaton fires ...

MacArthur Park has morphed into L.A.’s new ground zero for fentanyl, a collapsing, zombie-apocalypse landscape where ...

Los Angeles Fire Department officials said the man was trimming a palm tree when he fell some 35-feet and landed on a 10-foot ...

And somehow amid the rubble sat the same blue and yellow tables where I hung out nearly three decades prior. In September, I visited Saint Mark’s again. The campus had been cleared of debris—the ...