Jill Stewart

Neighbors sick of the criminal takeover of a mixed-use two-story building once touted as "near Staples Center" have helped the Los Angeles City Attorney secure a permanent injunction against its owners, officials announced. The building at the corner of Broadway and 93rd Street had been used by multiple South Los......

California Gov. Jerry Brown today signed Senate Bill 277, the tough childhood vaccination bill that riveted Californians after thousands of mothers and others opposed to vaccines or to government intervention in their medical decisions packed Capitol hearings this year.  On Monday, the State Senate passed an amended version of SB 277......

Numerous L.A. Weekly reporters, critics, columnists, editors and freelancers are finalists for the Southern California Journalism Awards to be held June 28 at the Millennium Biltmore, honors bestowed each year by the 500-member Los Angeles Press Club. Among the finalists, culled from more than 900 entries to the Press Club, are film critic Amy Nicholson,......

If you haven't chosen yet from the shortest Los Angeles-area ballot (for a non-special election) in awhile, here are your reminders about who is running, and where. A lot is on the line in the Southeast cities, the struggling and aging 'burbs of L.A., some of which boast a nearly......

One of the 54 fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People Issue 2015. One of Emilio Pack's most vivid childhood memories is that of his Cuban immigrant single mom, desperate to hold together her extended family amid the poverty and street violence that gripped their chosen new city, performing illegal......

Want to meet people with whom you'd enjoy playing trivia games, or somebody who'd actually lend you their ladder? Try heading to your voting precinct on March 3, 2015 to rub elbows with the rarest of rare — municipal election voters (also known as your neighbors). Big local races and......

The harrowing early-morning collision between Camarillo and Oxnard of a Metrolink commuter train and a truck, in which the truck driver  apparently tried to flee, left an estimated 30 Los Angeles-bound commuters injured including four in critical condition. It is not known if anyone was killed, and authorities have thus......

The clever folks at eColleges keep churning out some of the more interesting maps that explain where, how much, how popular,  and other burning questions about colleges in America, all of it instantly understandable to a little kid — a great marketing tool for them and fun for the rest......