On Tuesday, the council drafted and posted a flurry of proposals for same-day voting — so many that they were buried under one another on a City Hall bulletin board.
California officials open multiple price gouging investigations in wake of LA County wildfires
Displaced Los Angeles Homeowners Face Price Gouging After Wildfires
Jay Gilberg bought a five-bedroom, 4,800-square-foot (446-sq-meter) home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades in June to merge two households, bringing his two daughters, his girlfriend,
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California attorney general details efforts to prevent Los Angeles fire-related price gouging
Fanned by strong winds, the wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Coverage of the Eaton and Palisades fires, including stories about the unprecedented losses, issues firefighters faced and the winds.
Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said in a Sunday interview that he’s excited for President-elect Trump to visit California. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show
In response, advocates like the Los Angeles Tenants Union—an organization that says it’s “fighting for the human right to housing for all” by demanding “safe, affordable housing and universal rent control”—have begun to track allegations of rental price gouging and have renewed calls for an emergency eviction moratorium and a rent freeze.
The fires have blazed across tens of thousands of acres, swallowing homes, devouring communities, and scarring Los Angeles for 10 unending days. They left an ashy trail of destruction, toxins and charred debris that will take months to clear.
In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire department by $17.6 million from the previous year. At the time, the city of Los Angeles was negotiating the union contract with the firefighters' union, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
The wildfire devastation in Los Angeles will require California to develop far greater resiliency to climate-worsened disasters to sustain its revival—and a path for withstanding future disasters.
Here is as list of organizations accepting donations and offering to help Southern California wildfire victims.
SEATTLE — The King County Council unanimously passed an emergency proposal on Tuesday to provide aid to Los Angeles as devastating wildfires continue to threaten southern California ...
As wildfires continue to devastate the Los Angeles area, investigators are working to find out how they started and what may have worsened the situation.
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