Patrick Range McDonald

It's always fun to see who the cool kids -- i.e., celebrities -- line up with come election season, and this year's mayoral race is starting to attract that kind of attention. L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti recently rolled out a video starring a gushing Salma Hayek. Now it's City......

At the failing 24th Street Elementary School in West Adams, the site of the first Parent Trigger in the Los Angeles Unified School District, an interesting competition appears to be brewing. If you remember, parents at 24th Street Elementary dropped a signature petition on L.A. Unified officials on January 17,......

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti has been rolling out the Hollywood endorsements, and just recently he released a hilarious video of his "friend" and actress Salma Hayek, who gushes over him. In fact, Hayek seems to have a crush on Garcetti, pointing out that he's an "amazing dancer!" Not......

Will candidates for the highly competitive Los Angeles City Council District 13 race ever seriously talk about and offer solutions for the affordable housing crisis in Hollywood and other parts of the city? That's what Coalition for Economic Survival was wondering when it attended a candidates' forum last night in......

After nearly eight years at helm, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is leaving office on June 30, 2013. That puts today's Villaraigosa Countdown at 156 days. Some people love him, others hate him -- and many others probably still can't pronounce his name. In a tribute of sorts, L.A. Weekly......

On the front page of this morning's Los Angeles Times, the paper notes that several legal experts suspect Cardinal Roger Mahony will not face criminal charges for covering up clergy sex abuse due to the statute of limitations. One advocacy group says those experts have it wrong. "We aren't police,......

If you were a pet in Los Angeles and could vote, you'd probably pick mayoral candidate and City Councilwoman Jan Perry. In an odd campaign video, Perry lays out an "ambitious" pro-pet agenda with the kind of passionate delivery that makes one wonder if the whole thing is a spoof......

Read more about Wendy Greuel's housing record: "Rent Activists Hit Greuel and Garcetti." Update, 1:05 p.m.: City Controller Wendy Greuel's office releases a statement, after the jump. Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel, who's running for mayor, is stirring up outrage with a recommendation that could return L.A. to a......

Read "Los Angeles Unified School District Braces For First Parent Trigger Take Over." Parents of children who attend the failing 24th Street Elementary School in West Adams dropped a signature petition on Los Angeles Unified School District officials in downtown today, pulling the first Parent Trigger in the country's second......