Los Angeles commits to 100% electric sanitation fleet by 2035. Other cities aren’t ready to follow
LASAN Director Enrique Zaldivar pledged to procure only electric vehicles in two years and gradually convert the fleet. While the market continues to evolve, adoption...
Composting in LA isn’t as easy as it sounds
Venice Blvd. consists mainly of small storefronts and apartment complexes, but on one corner, next to the fire station, a large garden interrupts the buildings...
Los Angeles Rethinks Taxis as Uber and Lyft Dominate the Streets
The cab business is down 75 percent in less than a decade. The plan is to make taxis a lot more like their app-hailed rivals.
Strong Winds Spark More Than a Dozen LA-Area Wildfires, Including a Blaze Near Reagan Presidential Library
More than a dozen wildfires ignited around Los Angeles Wednesday as strong Santa Ana winds prompted the National Weather Service to issue "extreme red flag...
Reagan Library spared from flames as powerful wind gusts drive new wildfire near Los Angeles
Hurricane-force gusts and single-digit humidity levels combined Wednesday to spark a number of fires across Southern California, including one here that threatened the Ronald Reagan...
Getty Fire Breaks out in Los Angeles, Adding to California’s Fire Woes
Yet another wildfire has ignited in California as the state battles wind-driven blazes that have forced nearly 200,000 from their homes and left around a...
LA cooling initiative built for city’s hottest, most vulnerable neighborhoods
The program will pilot 10 cool neighborhood projects in vulnerable communities by 2025. Cooling measures include planting trees, installing cool pavement, building bus benches with...
Los Angeles is testing ‘plastic asphalt’ that makes it possible to recycle roads
By mixing recycled plastic bottles with chewed up asphalt, the new process repaves a road without adding any new asphalt—and makes it from a material...