Aaron Mendelson

Challengers in the Los Angeles' District Attorney race sounded off following a KPCC/LAist investigation into landlords PAMA Management and Mike Nijjar, calling for greater scrutiny into the business practices of the real estate and property management empire.

A new bill from Oakland lawmaker Buffy Wicks would track rents, vacancies, ownership and more for landlords with at least 5 units.

The fire came to my attention because the buildings are part of a vast rental empire I wrote about in an investigation we published last week.

The cause of the fire is undetermined. The building is part of a vast rental empire that was the subject of our landlord investigation that published last week.

Campaign contributions are returned, a bill calling for more transparency will be re-introduced in Sacramento.

A Los Angeles city councilmember has returned campaign donations and a state legislator is promising to reintroduce a bill that would shed light on the rental market, following our investigation into a California rental empire.

I use data to power accountability journalism.

Days of heavy rain was a good thing for our drought-stricken region in general, but it also caused flooding, mudslides, evacuations in recent fire burn zones and traffic chaos.

Former lawmaker Sebastian Ridley-Thomas is the son of influential L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.

Your eyes are not deceiving you: the Los Angeles Lakers are playing basketball at a blisteringly fast pace.