Zach Behrens

Photo by aharvey2k via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Found at a park within Park La Brea where the going rental rate of a 580 square foot studio starts near $1200....

The city budget crisis must be really that bad. Today, the LA Department of Transportation announced the elimination of free transfers on all of its DASH Downtown L.A. routes effective April 1. Fares will remain $0.25 per boarding and monthly passes can now be bought for $9 online or at various locations. "It will help a little bit," LADOT Bruce Gilman said of the increased revenue, which is projected to be around $130,000 annually...

Screenshot via the Sacramento Bee, click here for the interactive version Before the number dips, it's predicted that California will hit a 12% unemployment rate by the end of the year, according to the University of the Pacific per the SacBee. And that number, currently hovering below 11%, will not gain single-digit status until late 2011, they predict. All in all, the state could be looking at nearly one million lost jobs. The SacBee...

Photo by rochelle, et. al. via Flickr Shortly after 11 p.m., officials with the LA County Recorder-Registrar completed tallying a meager amount of votes casted Tuesday for the 26th State Senate seat vacated by Mark Ridley-Thomas last year when he became a Los Angeles County Supervisor. The semi-official results show that Democratic State Assemblyman Curren Price, Republican Rabbi Nachum Shifren and Cindy Varela Henderson of the Peace & Freedom Party will run in the...

President Barack Obama's web team has really set a high standard transparency on the web. His website for the White House and Recovery.gov, the stimulus website, are slickly designed with useful information folded into opportunities to send the administration feedback. One of the the requirements for states and other grantees under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is to report project status, spending, and job creation and retention to the public on a regular...

Photo by mondolind via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr As expected, it's a slooooowwww election day for the State Senate District 26 seat. "I voted at my usual polling place in Silver Lake today (The Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic Meeting Room on Sunset Blvd.)," commented rizzo on a post this morning about the election. "I walked in at 12:30pm and was greeted with cheers and squeals of delight by the poll workers. They said...

An F-22a fighter jet crashed this morning near Edwards Air Force Base, about 75 miles north of Los Angeles, leaving the pilot in an unknown condition. An initial news release stated that the fighter jet crashed while on a test mission approximately 35 miles northeast of the Base around 10 a.m. At the time of the accident, the aircraft was from the base, explained Airport Spokesman Dennis Shoffner over the phone. More details will...

Photo via Los Cerritos Wetlands Trust It appears to be a misunderstanding, but on Friday a construction company began clearing a field of fragile ecohabitat in the Los Cerritos Wetlands, which is the largest salt marsh in Los Angeles County. "I sure didn't wake up today planning to spend 8 hours near the corner of Loynes and Studebaker watching tractors and earth movers scrape bare a fragile and important part of the Los Cerritos...

Photo: tomsaint11/Flickr A male pedestrian died this afternoon around the corner from the LA County-USC Medical Center after a forklift ran over him at the old ambulance entrance of the hospital. Preliminary reports show that the operator was carrying a load of unknown contents and did not see the pedestrian, who was not part of the construction crew. As of 4:00 p.m., the man completely remained under the forklift, nearly two hours after the...

Photo by Coyote2012 via Flickr On Sunday morning, a 20-year-old male hispanic transient was shot on the 1200 block of Lyman Place in East Hollywood. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to LAPD Officer Karen Smith. His story is just one of many where transients are victims of crime. "Nationwide, 774 homeless people have been victims of violence since 1999, including 217 who were killed," says the National...

Shortly before 10:30 a.m., a city utility truck from the Bureau of Sanitation crashed into a Sun Valley home injuring the female driver. The truck, which was pulling a piece of equipment behind it, careened into a car on the street, then struck a tree before crashing into the living room of the house at 12308 Sheldon Street near the 5 and 170 freeway interchange, according to Devin Gales of the Los Angeles Fire...

Cahuenga Pass in 1911 | Photo via the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, Gift of Gary Fredburg 2008 On Sunday at LA Heritage Day, when over 60 local historical groups gathered at Heritage Square, one of the most crowded booths was from the Museum of the San Fernando Valley. The museum's president, Jerry Fecht, displayed hundreds of historical postcards drawing people to see what their Valley home looked like before massive development. Fecht...