On a hot Saturday evening, dozens of Westside residents walked into a Westchester pole dance
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For more than a year, one of Councilmember Traci Park’s most sweeping proposals to criminalize homelessness sat untouched in committee. Introduced in May 2025, Council File 20-1376-S5 would push Los
On September 1, LA City Council unanimously approved a motion from Councilmember Traci Park ratcheting up the City’s coercive approach to unhoused people on the Westside. The motion replaces two
The Venice Dell saga took another dramatic turn last Thursday when the Los Angeles Board of Transportation Commissioners voted to vacate its December 2024 decision blocking the use of Municipal
Earlier this year, Mar Vista Voice reported on the large amount of nonessential pavement in Los Angeles, including at Mar Vista Elementary, where a planned campus upgrade will replace asphalt
Photo credit: James Garcia, taken at the rally outside of Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt’s house on August 17, 2026. UCLA’s sudden announcement on August 13 that it
As an extreme heat warning stretches across Los Angeles, one of the most important pieces of the city’s emergency infrastructure is already sitting in nearly every neighborhood: the public library.
Los Angeles has managed to squeeze three more plot twists into the Venice Dell saga in a single week. On Thursday, the Board of Transportation Commissioners will once again be
Residents of William Mead Homes are organizing to stop the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles from demolishing the Chinatown public housing community where generations of families have
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