Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, along with at least 17 mayors from Los Angeles and Orange counties, heads to Washington, D.C. today for the 80th Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. More than 250 mayors will descend on Washington today, and they have a big fish to discuss with President Barack Obama - a transportation spending bill. more ›

In a CBS2 exclusive, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa revealed a secret that he's kept since his childhood on Monday night, one that involved an abusive home and an alcoholic father. Villaraigosa, whose childhood continues to haunt him, watched his father repeatedly beat his mother. more ›

Occupy haters may have another reason to oppose the global movement following the news that costs surrounding the local occupation will spur more budget cuts. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says budget cuts will be necessary to offset the costs of Occupy L.A. more ›

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck lauded the three officers who responded to the scene of the Hollywood gunman rampage during a press conference on Friday honoring the officers. more ›

Taking its cues from the mayor, the Los Angeles Police Department is reconsidering its rules for impounding cars. more ›

On the heels of the Occupy L.A. raid, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa released the following statement on Wednesday regarding the closure of City Hall Park. He continues to laud the LAPD for their restrained efforts and suggests that the "Occupy LA movement can now amplify their calls for social justice and economic opportunity." more ›

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stopped by KTLA this morning to talk about the Occupy LA eviction. Proud of the LAPD, Villaraigosa said that police were restrained during the eviction process. The eviction has been very peaceful so far with only three arrests. more ›

Drivers caught driving without a license can expect to have their cars impounded for a month at a time in Los Angeles. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to change that and allow drivers, many of them illegal immigrants, to get their cars back much quicker. more ›

Lots of people in Los Angeles crave privacy. Many of them are people who have chosen to make careers out of living life in the public eye, and then decide that actually, being in the public eye sucks (yes, I'm looking at you, famouses). Well, now we can add to that list one Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has won the right to break zoning laws and go against the wishes of the very constituents he serves by building fence around his Windsor Square residence. more ›

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Tuesday that his office will expand their annual Summer Night Lights program, which aims to reduce Summertime gang violence. Eight more parks are being added to the master plan for this Summer totaling at 24 locations to host after-school activities, athletic leagues, arts initiatives and family programs in high crime rate areas. more ›

So this guy named Oscar is having a party, and a whole boatload of famous people are invited... Our invite must have been lost in the mail, but that's okay...we're just going to mix up ourselves the Official Oscar Cocktail (or two, or three, or...) and watch right alongside the rest of the world. And you're invited to our party... When the curtain goes up at 5 p.m., the liveblogging begins. See you then! more ›

There are over 1000 homes in the Station Fire burn area that are under mandatory evacuation orders this afternoon as a third severe winter storm pounds down on Southern California and poses a very serious threat of mudslides and debris flow. more ›

This afternoon Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa held a press conference to address concerns about the city's emergency agencies and the response to today's heavy and dangerous rainstorms. more ›

In a candid interview published in today's LA Times, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa shares his reasons for his current well-being, citing changes to his diet, personal life, and career. more ›

To get everyone in the mood for the upcoming dineLA Restaurant Week, dozens of Los Angeles' most celebrated chefs gathered at the Hollywood Roosevelt Tuesday night for a night of food, drink, and revelry. more ›

Yesterday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa met with all three of the finalists for the position of Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, to replace William Bratton, who surrendered his star this weekend and is moving back to New York to work in the private sector. The three candidates all come from within the LAPD, a consideration that the departed Bratton and many Angelenos felt was essential to the future success of the department. Sunday's meetings were the second of the week between the three and the Mayor; Villaraigosa's "request to see them again appeared to indicate that the choice was not an easy one," notes the LA Times. more ›

On the agenda today for the City Council is consideration of a proposal that will "replace the city government's crash-prone e-mail system with a Google-based application," according to the Daily News. The impetus behind what some view as a costly or belated upgrade is the fact that the system they currently use, GroupWise, is often down and unreliable. more ›

Swept up in the good time-y vibes surely prevalent during last night's heavily-touted U2 concert at the Rose Bowl, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a couple of opportunities to share his exuberance over the occasion via Twitter. Villaraigosa and his girlfriend, KTLA reporter Lu Parker, were among the approximately 96,000 fans who packed the Pasadena stadium to see one of the last engagements in the rock band's "360 Tour" with support from the Black Eyed Peas. more ›

If it's broke, fix it, right? Only what happens when the people who are supposed to fix it are the ones who broke it in the first place? And they happened to have run out of the money it's going to likely take to do the fixing? Easy solution: Sell management of the school(s) to the highest--well, "superior"--bidder. more ›

If you follow (the person who ghost-tweets for?) the Mayor of L.A. on Twitter, you may have noticed, as LA Observed did, that he was happy to be at home after his vacation in Africa. "Good to be back in LA!" he remarked. more ›

With one day left before the LAUSD Board is due to vote on the postponed motion for thousands of layoffs district-wide at their regularly scheduled meeting, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to meet later this morning with teachers and parents to talk about ways to avoid the ax falling so mightily. more ›

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is packing this weekend full of man-about-town stops where he can meet the people and pose for photos all in prep for Tuesday's municipal election, when he hopes the voters will put him into office for a second term. more ›

As part of his Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), former President Bill Clinton will join Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at City Hall today to "unveil what is being billed as the largest light-emitting diode street light program undertaken by a city," according to the Daily News. more ›

The 36th Annual Los Angeles Mayor's Breakfast was held this morning downtown at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. The key speaker was none other than Orange County Pastor Rick Warren, who "spoke about influence, affluence and peace," according to the OC Register. Warren, who heads the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, made national headlines when President Barack Obama selected him to deliver the invocation at his January 20th inauguration. After very publicly declaring his love for gay people while denouncing their right to marry and supporting California's Prop 8, Obama supporters feared his inclusion in the historic ceremony would scar the President's pre-Oval Office rep as a man of true change. more ›

Last week, LA Times columnist Steve Lopez asked readers if they wanted to see incumbent Mayor Villaraigosa debate his top challenger, Walter Moore, and he reveals today that a resounding 97% say yes. more ›

In a press conference held at 8:00 this morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa addressed the continuing concerns for the City of Los Angeles created by the Sayre Fire, which is being battled by a "unified command" of the LA Fire Department, the LA County Fire Department, the US Forestry Service, and the LAPD. more ›

While the housing crisis is a national issue, how the problem is dealt with sometimes comes down to local response. Yesterday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took part in the Los Angeles Business Council's Mayoral Housing Summit, and spoke to those gathered regarding his thoughts on the issue. The event's focus this year was on a regional emphasis for addressing the housing crisis and on the issue of "housing affordability and availability" and aimed at "attract[ing] the county’s major employers, mayors and elected officials as well as business leaders from across all 88 L.A. county cities." more ›

Early yesterday afternoon, members of SEIU Local 1877 who work at LAX in a variety of capacities in jobs as janitors, skycaps, and wheelchair attendants, went on strike. They have been seeking "higher wages and affordable health care," explaining that they wish to have more pay and security in order to ensure the quality of their lives and their work. The workers opted to strike only when talks between their union and the 9 contractors who broker their employment with LAX hit a stalemate. Although the walk-out was not expected to derail operations at the city's very busy airport, it did affect travel times for customers of United, Southwest, and American. more ›

But why does a city that's under ice half the year have a better system of bike lanes, not to mention a bike-riding mayor, while Villaraigosa has a deputy mayor for transportation who dopes around L.A. in his Hummer? more ›