financial crisis she was looking out for the interests of all minority-owned banks — not just o...

Some civic leaders worry that the remaining candidates may lack the resolve to tackle L.A.'s fiscal crisis.Los Angeles political veteran Zev Yaroslavsky's decision to forgo next year's race for mayor leaves a field dominated by City Hall insiders and heightened anxieties among some civic leaders about whether the remaining contenders will aggressively confront the city's continuing financial crisi...

With the state and municipalities in financial crisis, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is cracking down on placard fraud. The issue strikes at the nexus of parking angst, civic revenues and righteous indignation.In Beverly Hills, a DMV agent confiscates a disabled parking placard

Villaraigosa calls for a streamlined teachers contract and more choices for students, but also cites various city accomplishments from the last six years. Critics wanted more details on the budget.Civic leaders expressed consternation and puzzlement, but also praise, for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's focus on education — calling for a revamped teachers contract and more choices for students &...

puts the city's financial crisis in the hands of an interim city administrator and a City Council that has yet t...

Current and former council members will be arraigned in March. Judge blasts 'sham agencies' that boosted their pay to $100,000, orders them to stay away from City Hall and suggests more criminal charges.A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Wednesday excoriated six current and former Bell City Council members as he ordered them to stand trial for allegedly looting the city treasury and to sta...

Legislators have spent at least $259,000 in taxpayer funds on new SUVs and other vehicles for themselves in the last year despite a push by the new governor and the last one to cut California's fleet amid the state's financial crisis.Lawmakers have spent at least $259,000 in taxpayer funds on new SUVs and other vehicles for themselves in the last year despite a push by the new governor and the las...

Split on how to proceed, the Budget and Finance Committee asks City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana for more suggestions for addressing the financial crisis. Two council members call for layoffs of city workers as an alternative to more furloughs.The Los Angeles City Council's budget panel

The mayor's top financial advisor says even if a deal is reached, L.A. still needs to pursue a 'drastic' round of short-term cuts that would be among the deepest of the city's current financial crisis.The top financial advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday that the city would need to stop hiring police officers if the City Council abandons plans to lease nine public park...

Thirty-six years after first taking the same oath, the 72-year-old warns of shared sacrifices and hard choices ahead as the state deals with its financial crisis. He says he hopes to restore people's faith in government.Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. was sworn in as California's 39th governor Monday

Beck opposes the idea, saying it's not in the public's interest.It came as little surprise this week that the influential union that represents Los Angeles' rank-and-file police officers waded into the debate over hiring more police during in a major financial crisis.

Mike Piscal, 44, who founded and ran ICEF Public Schools, steps down amid an ongoing financial crisis that will result in slashing the organization's payroll by about 25%.The founder of a troubled charter school company, one of the nation's largest, has resigned amid an ongoing financial crisis

City Controller Wendy Greuel declares an 'urgent financial crisis' and says the only way to continue paying bills in the short term is to begin draining the city's already limited emergency reserve

The utility may withhold $73 million from the general fund unless the City Council backs the larger rate hikes that are being sought by the mayor's appointees. A bruising political fight among Los Angeles' top elected leaders over a proposed hike in electricity rates threatened Thursday to deepen the city's ...