Sharon McNary

The Unidad coalition of social justice groups negotiated with a developer to reserve 15 percent of apartments in a new highrise in South L.A. for low-income renters.

A new equipment sharing agreement has freed up shipping container trailers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

L.A.'s water utility wants the City Council to create a new agency that could borrow up to $400 million and pass the cost to individual water customers

Bus lines between Pasadena and Alhambra would cost more than earlier estimates; and a tunnel would cost billions. Other options: speeding street traffic, light rail.

The L.A. County Coroner has identified the man known as "Charley S. Robinet" as Charly Leundeu Keunang. His partner in a 2000 bank robbery talks about Keunang, who died in an officer involved shooting.

A pilot program lifts a longstanding ban on local hiring preferences for federally-funded transportation construction. The change comes amid a building boom in L.A.

The city was paving more miles of streets, but it lacked the equipment and staff to paint lane lines. A city committee recommends a $2.8 million interim fix.

Los Angeles hasn't had a citywide residential sidewalk repair program since 2009. It only fixes sidewalks outside city-owned buildings - and even those are behind.

Oxnard has nearly $2 million in hand to design a bridge that would lift Rice Avenue over risky railroad tracks, but it lacks the $35 million needed to build it.

Crews could be in the area for hours fixing the mess — past pipe repairs in the Hollywood Hills took LADWP workers an average of 21.5 hours to repair.

If refiners can't ship enough of a dirty petroleum byproduct out of the troubled ports of L.A. and Long Beach, they might have to cut back fuel production.

Mega-ships that haul six times the cargo of normal ships and chronic shortages of truck trailer chassis are also contributing to port congestion.