The smell of wet grass from the recent atmospheric river rains, mud and gasoline wafts through the warm Southern California air as Alec Derpetrossian works the chainsaw with a foreman, Randy Magaña, who helps him guide where to put the blade.

The L.A. City Council moved to adopt relatively lenient "Zone Zero" laws for homes in fire danger zones, measures that do not align with the plans that state agencies are working to enact.

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The protests follow the deadly ICE shootings of Keith Porter Jr. in Los Angeles and Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

On-location production in Los Angeles saw a slight uptick in the last few months of 2025, but overall the year marked another bleak one for the city with 16.1% fewer total shoot days than 2024, according to the latest report from FilmLA.

Rick Caruso, the runner-up in the Los Angeles Mayoral race four years ago, announced he will not pursue elected office at this time. Tom Wait reports.