Jill Stewart

The Associated Press is reporting that Hollywood Park Land Co., the group behind Inglewood's most ambitious civic project ever — a proposed $1 billion NFL stadium at the closed Hollywood Park race track, actually do want locals to pony up $100 million in the first five years after opening. That's......

If anyone thought the chess pieces of Downtown Los Angeles would hold position now that everything is going great in the city core's wildly successful revival, news that the Ace Hotel building is up for sale for an eye-popping price is a reminder that land is L.A.'s currency. Owners of......

Heiress Wallis Annenberg's stunning abandonment of her dream to build a large, widely ridiculed visitor “appreciation” center on the protected Ballona Wetlands has bouyed environmental groups trying to protect its hundreds of acres of meadows, seasonal creeks and thriving brackish saltwater on the Westside. Now let the really ugly stuff......

The ritzy Luxe Hotel on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, decked in Christmas finery and filled with high-end customers, became the backdrop to a bloody drama this afternoon as a Beverly Hills Police Department officer opened fire in its lobby, shooting an apparent robbery suspect who had allegedly hit the......

Judge David Fields has sentenced one of Los Angeles' nightmare boyfriends, Noe Iniguez — who posted his ex-girlfriend's nude photos on her employer's Facebook page and slammed her as a "slut" in hopes of getting her fired — to one year in jail after a vigorous prosecution by the Los......

The State of California shook Mayor Eric Garcetti, the L.A. City Council and Hollywood developers today, releasing a legally binding map of the Hollywood Earthquake Fault Zone which shows that the active "surface rupture" fault runs under the lower part of property for the proposed Millennium Towers skyscrapers.  State law renders......

Democrats Alex Padilla of Los Angeles and Betty Yee of San Francisco were in fairly close races for Secretary of State and State Controller, respectively, Tuesday night — given that most polls had them in very safe territory. But as of about 10:25 p.m. on Nov. 4, the pair were......

Want to meet new people worth having over for poker or with whom to swap your second-hand novels? Try your voting precinct's active voters — also known as neighbors. There are about 1,000 of you per precinct, and it's always interesting to see who's out and about from your enclave......

Here's a head-scratcher: Vahak Mardoun Mardikian got demoted in 2012 by the Glendale Police Department for harassing and belittling other cops, but later the city's Civil Service Commission sided with Mardikian. He was ultimately give a huge settlement, basically by claiming that the department, half of which is made up of Armenian,......

What was Jose Lewis Avila thinking when he pulled the creepiest robberies of all, spotting lone women who were tooling along in their cars in San Gabriel Valley, then following them home and terrorizing and robbing them? That they wouldn't remember his widely noted "pretty eyes" and tell the cops? ......