Author Archives: By Elizabeth Hsing-Huei Chou, City News Service

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban the use of chewing tobacco at city parks and all organized sports venues in Los Angeles, including […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The city will stop issuing new business tax certificates to medical marijuana dispensaries under an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday, Jan. […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The board that oversees the Department of Water and Power has unanimously approved a plan to raise customer water rates over the next five years to […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The rate of aggravated assaults in Los Angeles would have been 36 percent higher per year, from 2008 and 2014, had the crimes been properly classified, […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday, Nov. 17, to declare a shelter crisis to make it easier to open buildings and parking lots year-round to […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to require handguns to be stored in locked containers or disabled with a trigger lock as a safeguard […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Mayor Eric Garcetti traveled to Switzerland on Wednesday, Sept. 2,  to present Los Angeles to the International Olympic Committee as a candidate to host the 2024 […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles City Council agreed Wednesday, Aug. 26, to to form an ad hoc committee to oversee the city’s participation in a bid to host […]