On Tuesday, the council drafted and posted a flurry of proposals for same-day voting — so many that they were buried under one another on a City Hall bulletin board.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is facing mounting backlash over her response to the wildfires that have torn through her city, raising questions about her own political future as the region continues to struggle to contain the fires.

As a disastrous fire continues to burn on the city’s west side, some are calling Chief Kristin Crowley to account: Why wasn’t the city better prepared?

Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said in a Sunday interview that he’s excited for President-elect Trump to visit California. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show

Officials say L.A. needs to enforce tenant protections in buildings not subject to L.A.’s rent-stabilization ordinance.

The motion by Council members Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martínez would restrict rent hikes for one year. The proposal could help counteract a spate of illegal rent hikes that have surfaced despite an anti-price-gouging law that passed in 2018.

The question of who is in charge is testimony to the diffusion and, at times, dysfunction that make up the core DNA of the governance of the greater Los Angeles area.

One of the two major fires that devastated this region — the Eaton fire — is not even in the city of Los Angeles; it is in an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County. The response to the Eaton fire was led by the county fire department; the city fire department was at the forefront in fighting the Palisades fire.

The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself. . . . The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” This was Joan Didion writing in 1968 on the effect that the Santa Ana winds have had on the psyche and landscape of Southern California.

The first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already

Despite the recent fires, Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympics as planned as existing infrastructure remains intact, but debates over funding and potential recovery efforts continue.

Democrats hold super-majorities in the California State Assembly and the Senate. Democrats can, and do, pass legislation without a single Republican vote.