Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Westside Mansions' Power-Use Gluttony Confirmed By Awesome UCLA Electricity Map

An awesome new electricity use map created by UCLA's California Center for Sustainable Communities shows what you probably already suspect. Those righteous Prius drivers and aficionados of all things "sustainable," a.k.a. rich Westsiders, have some of the highest power usage figures in town:

DWP Goes After Prized Creek in Mammoth Lakes

L.A. would burn through water in single day

CicLAvia Rules! How Bicyclists Made L.A. a Better Place

L.A. DWP Is 'Ringleader' of 'Secret Society' Running America's Largest Water District, Complains San Diego

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power already has a pretty awful reputation among its own constituents. Hand-in-hand with City Hall politicians, DWP officials have more than once tried to dupe ratepayers into unwarranted bill hikes -- despite a fat surplus at the department, and despite the ... More >>

Squatter Murders in L.A. Burbs

LAPD couldn't evict Brent Zubek. Soon, two were dead in Chatsworth

Yvette Vickers, Ex-Playmate and 'Attack of the 50 Foot Woman' Starlet, Found Mummified in Beverly Hills Mansion One Year After Death

Yvette Vickers played mistress to the 50 foot woman's husband​Update: County coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter tells KTLA News today that Vickers died of heart disease. But, he said, he's not sure when she died. In a sprawling, 1920s-era stone-and-wood estate in Beverly Hills, former B-list ... More >>

Ron Nichols, DWP General Manager, Defends $23,000 And $1,300 Surprise Bills and Turnoff Threats to Customers Caused by His Staff

Via Daily BreezeDWP general manager Ron Nichols: the customer is always wrong. ​Ron Nichols is getting off to an ugly start as chief of DWP, the widely hated utility monopoly, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. KNBC-4's Ana Garcia reports that general manager Ron Nichols allowed ... More >>

DWP Oversight Office Watered Down, Barely Moved Toward Ballot After L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti And Seven Other Councilmembers Crumble To DWP Intimidation

Could that be the DWP in Garcetti's ear?​Yes, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is as bad as you've heard. 1) Its overpaid suits proposed unwarranted 28-percent rate hikes on residents last spring while guarding a $73.5 million surplus like territorial dogs. 2) They only show up t ... More >>

New Water Rationing Plan For L.A: Three Days A Week Of Lawn Irrigation

​A new plan forwarded by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's board of commissioners will add a day to the city's two-day lawn-irrigation limits, letting residents water lawns three days a week instead of two. The plan, in part, is a reaction to a study that found the city's water ... More >>

Heat Wave: DWP Urges Angelenos To Conserve Power As Temps Soar

​The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is urging consumers to conserve power to avoid straining the city's electric grid. The National Weather and Service issued a excessive heat watch for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties from Thursday through F ... More >>

Los Angeles Water And Power Officials Skip City Council Meeting; Councilmembers Outraged

​Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials on Wednesday skipped a joint city council committee about a recent audit released by City Controller Wendy Gruel that accused the DWP of lying to push through a rate hike, according to the Daily News. The city council's Audits and Governme ... More >>

L.A. Water And Power Chief Pours Gas On Immigration Fire, Asks Arizona Conventions To Come To L.A.

​Austin Beutner, city Job Czar and general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, this week entered the debate with an Arizona power commissioner over the L.A.'s boycott of the desert state. He invited conventions that are also avoiding Arizona over its controversial immigra ... More >>

L.A. City Finally Gets Its Department Of Water And Power Money

​The board of commissioners of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power today voted to give the city's main coffers a promised $73.5 million after three months of argument about the cash, which was held up over the DWP's demand that the City Council raise electricity rates. (We've seen ho ... More >>

Villaraigosa Backs Off Massive Rate Hike Plan (For Now)

​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday threw his support behind a one-time, "small" rate hike for customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, acknowledging that his proposal for a series of increases in electricity rates that would reach 28.4 percent for some was too ... More >>

Al Gore Backs Mayor's 'Carbon Surcharge' Rate Hikes For DWP Customers

​Former Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday backed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's "carbon surcharge" proposal for Department of Water and Power customers despite reports indicating that the plan could hike power fees as much as 28.4 percent. "Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles has introduc ... More >>

DWP Says Leggo My Logo

​Invites for a gallery lecture featuring a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power board member and its director of water resources were apparently changed to exclude DWP logos after the agency protested, according to the Chance of Rain water conservation blog. The lecture at G2 Gallery in ... More >>

Los Angeles Council District 2 Race Attracts Millions In Contributions

Christine Essel​You might not know it but there's a momentous battle for a City Council seat going down this week, and it's attracting some big money and powerful interests. Former Hollywood studio executive Christine Essel is fighting state Assemblyman Paul Krekorian for the chance to represe ... More >>

L.A. Blows: Some Lose Power

Whomever says Los Angeles doesn't have seasons is obtuse. Sure, our complaints about the latest weather bringing "cold" temperatures would make any Midwesterner laugh. But still, Monday's high was 91 degrees. This morning we woke up to temperatures in the 40s and 50s. Add to that wind gusts up to 5 ... More >>

More Flooding in September: Ed Hardy Gets Wet

A day after a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power spokeswoman told the Weekly that all the subterranean water-system carnage that's happened over the week is "normal," another pipe burst, closing Melrose Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue and sending water rushing into a nearby -- gasp! -- Ed Hardy ... More >>

Another Pipe Bursts: Street Flooding 'Normal' in September, Says DWP

The oft-arid nature of this city belies a subterranean water world that sometimes flows like an El Nino storm in reverse. This, of course, is what happened Saturday when a 95-year-old water main ruptured on Cold Water Canyon Avenue near Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, sending cars adrift, flooding ... More >>

How Energy Conscious is Los Angeles? Not Very!

Here is a mind-boggling conflict that seems strangely at odds to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's effort to creat a green, energy-conscious city. On the one hand, the DWP is pushing homeowners to go green -- even suggesting that homeowners use low wattage bulbs instead of incandescent ... More >>

Jean Nouvel Unveils Century City Condo Plan

If you lived there, you'd be home by then

Lords of Your Thermostat?

California Energy Commission caught in scalding water

Can David Nahai Keep the Lights On?

L.A.’s man to watch in 2008. Talking water and power and history with the city’s new DWP head

Truth Teller

Remembering Terry Rosales

The Green Rooms

Tips for a healthy home

Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

Marching Orders

The president speaks, and the immigration fight is far from over

Greed Runs Through It

One man’s journey to the end of the Colorado River

Light On the Roof

The reincarnation of Arnold’s solar initiative

The Air That We Breathe

Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

Smog Sick

Amped-Up Over Nothing

L.A. comes to terms with a power snafu

Ruffled Feathers

Audubon sues the DWP for the sake of songbirds

Global Warming

Five Studies and Five Actions

Letters

DWP’s Public Relations Boomerang

The plug is pulled on Fleishman Hillard’s power

Money in the Lake

You will end up paying for repairing Owens Valley

Money in the Lake

You will end up paying for repairing Owens Valley

Boxing Simon

Little wiggle room for the Republican candidate for governor

Get Wet

Rip-Rolling Blackouts for Your Summer Calendar

Twiddling Turbine

State faces huge energy bill because of San Onofre shutdown

Flips and Switches

Gray Davis wants it both ways

Leave the Woman Alone

Little good and some harm will result from the latest fit over sheriff’s pension

L.A.'s Telecom Hotel

Downtown high-rise is Information Superhighway's Grand Junction (Internet and phone giants shake hands in the Meet Me Room)

Letters