The city and county of Los Angeles, along with several municipalities in Southern California, are seeking to join a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration over recent immigration raids.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Tuesday that the city will join a lawsuit against the Trump administration intended to stop federal immigration raids.

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed relating to the deadly Palisades Fire was amended Wednesday to now also target the State of California. "This is just sheer and utter incompetence by the government," said attorney Roger Behle. Behle is one of the attorneys representing more than 3,000 Palisades Fire victims.

The good news is that the mini heat wave that hit on Wednesday is peaking on Thursday, July 10, and the weekend will be somewhat cooler. But according to the National Weather Service (NWS), above-average temperatures will again return to Los Angeles and especially to the inland regions next week.

Over the last half century or so, millions more people have moved to greater Los Angeles, settling in increasingly far-flung reaches of the desert and in the mountains, requiring more faucets, toilets and shower heads, producing more garbage and more gridlock on the 405 freeway, reinforcing all the clichés about excess and sprawl.

From the emergence of Skid Row to the housing crisis after World War II, a look at the major events and policies that made and defined Los Angeles’ homeless crisis.

More than a week after Los Angeles landlords began imposing this year’s allowable rent increases on rent-stabilized apartments, tenant advocates are renewing calls for the City Council to adopt reforms that would limit future hikes,