While the arson numbers are disconcerting, especially in the wake of the wildfires, the situation may be getting worse.

After three consecutive annual increases, the number of traffic deaths in the city of Los Angeles declined in 2024. The year ...

When people in Los Angeles need immediate help, they dial 911. But when it’s not an emergency, and rather a request for a basic service, there’s another number: 311. Angelenos increasingly picked up ...

There are any number of ways to assess the impact of a wildfire. However, for the still ongoing blazes in Los Angeles, none seems to capture fully the level of destruction. So far, more than 180,000 ...

The number of murders committed in the city of Los Angeles fell sharply last year. Although the final full-year total has not been revealed, through Dec. 28 the Los Angeles Police Department had ...

Auto fatalities, like homicides, decline; pedestrian-vehicle collisions remain perilously high ...

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Crosstown seeks to deliver community-level data and analysis to the people of Los Angeles who want to make their neighborhoods and city safer, healthier, and more connected. We believe that vibrant ...

We collect our COVID-19 data on new infections from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The data is updated daily on our interactive map. We used population data from the 2018 American ...

Publisher and Editor Gabriel Kahn is a professor of professional practice at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. His research focuses on the economics of the media industry. He teaches classes on ...

Tracy Hernandez is the founding chief executive of the Los Angeles County Business Federation, a nonprofit, grassroots alliance of 180 top business networks in Southern California. It counts among its ...