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A recent audit found the L.A. Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) underspent its budget by $108 million in the last fiscal year, mainly because of “program delays.”
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Criminal Justice
Homicides are on decline in LA but shooting deaths of unhoused people remain disproportionately high
LAPD data shows at least 278 unhoused people have been shot and killed in Los Angeles since 2015. An investigation by LAist and The LA Local found that is an undercount.
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Turdle was the 16th unhoused person to be shot and killed in Los Angeles last year, an investigation by LAist and The LA Local has found.
Housing & Homelessness
Thousands of soccer fans are expected to descend on SoFi Stadium in Inglewood Friday to mark the start of the World Cup in Los Angeles. Yet hotel rooms are sitting empty.
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The move could jeopardize tens of millions in federal dollars that flow from HUD to LAHSA each year.Listen 0:45 -
The vacancies, uncovered by an LAist investigation, are part of an initiative L.A. Mayor Karen Bass introduced years ago.
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Civics & Democracy
This long-established process is one of the ways California makes sure registered voters are the ones casting mail-in ballots.
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The government says more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing relies on information collected under a tool known as FISA Section 702. -
In a rare step, voters decided to not give sitting judge Robert Draper another term.
Transportation & Mobility
A 75-gallon fish tank, dentures with two teeth and a child's prosthetic eye were just a few of the unique items left in Ubers over the last year.
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The next overhaul phase of an 8.28-mile bike route along Orange Avenue was approved Tuesday. -
Even tried-and-true Angelenos are stumped by this L.A. neccesi
Los Angeles Olympics 2028
The long, controversial history of sex testing for women athletes in the Olympic Games.
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13 candidates are running against incumbent Karen Bass for L.A. mayor, a position that will face questions around policing, homelessness and the 2028 Olympic Games.Listen 25:09
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Climate & Environment
A beach hazard is in effect until Thursday afternoon.
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Orange County residents want to halt the use of herbicides in local flood channels, but the majority of the Board of Supervisors believes it’s more complicated than that.Listen 0:38 -
Not much change in today's temperatures so prepare for another warm day.
Gardening & Outdoors
A science reporter's experiment with black soldier fly larvae is going well so far. Will the home-built system become self-sustaining?
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An ongoing petition process with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife could shrink, expand or add new protected areas along California's coast.Listen 0:42 -
Climate change and a historic lack of predators are the main culprits that have helped round stingray populations here.Listen 0:45
Health
The sales tax increase is expected to raise about $1 billion a year to fund the region's safety net healthcare system.
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Trump's DOJ is seeking patient files that include the names of young people who have been treated in transgender clinics, as well as hospital staff who have provided care.Listen 3:29 -
Food justice advocates said that in May alone, the program served 95,520 California households.
Education
The details are complicated — more Californians ages 18-34 are registered to vote, but they are returning their ballot at lower rates.
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Duarte High School’s inaugural ethnic studies class dug into the story of Rocktown, a majority Black and Latino community.Listen 0:43 -
A popular (and generous) repayment plan ends, two new plans begin and many borrowers will see new loan limits.Listen 4:00
Food
From a chili cheese omelet in Newport to crab hash in Eagle Rock, readers share the spots they keep coming back to.
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Inside the scrappy, fire-cooked, no-rules World Cup hangout DTLA didn't know it needed.
Explore LA
LAist correspondent Adolfo Guzman-Lopez remembers the year his life was changed — by the U.S. government, by his own tenacity — and a Mexican soccer player named Hugo Sanchez.
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Friday's game, the first of three group stage matches for the U.S., has been eight years in the making.Listen 2:37 -
The U.S. is opening its 2026 World Cup on Friday evening against Paraguay. For the 26 Americans on the team, this match is the culmination of years of hard work and training.
Arts & Entertainment
Hockney moved from London to Southern California in the 1960s and was an innovative painter, photographer, stage designer and printmaker.
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Host Larry Mantle is joined by Manuel Betancourt to discuss Documentary Magazine's list of what it determined to be the 25 greatest documentaries of the 21st Century. -
Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Charles Solomon, Christy Lemire, and Maureen Lee Lenker review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
LA History
From European restaurants serving pasta to Korean restaurants inscribing menus on gourds, food can provide a lens to see Koreatown’s development over time.
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The Immaculate Heart Sisters of Mary (IHMs) has a long history of pushing back on Catholic church norms and many of those efforts happened right here in SoCal.Listen 16:48 -
There once was a giant cowboy cutout standing above L.A. at the entrance of The Strip.Listen 4:12
Orange County
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Thousands of residents surrounding the tank had to be evacuated over Memorial Day weekend. -
A malfunctioning tank led to about 50,000 evacuations last month.
