Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s Rebecca Ellis, with an assist from my colleague David Zahniser, giving you the latest on city and county ...

As part of the preparation for a looming June trial, attorneys with law firm Manly, Stewart & Finaldi had arranged April 15 to visit Camp Scott, a shuttered L.A. County probation camp where many ...

It may feel like it rained a lot last year – and it did – but not enough to satisfy L.A. County’s critical shortage of rainfall, officials say. A news release issued Tuesday by Water for L.A ...

Judge Miguel Espinoza issued a tentative ruling that it was "unlawful" to allow the L.A. County Probation Department to continue housing juveniles at the facility. Espinoza did not immediately ...

In a press release issued Monday, the L.A. County CEO Office announced that their recommended budget for the county for 2025-26 be $47.9 billion. That number is bigger than the budgets of Kansas ...

First introduced in an April 2024 motion by L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis, the study was supposed to assess the viability of East L.A. becoming a city or special district and provide a financial ...

If approved by the Board of Supervisors, it would be the largest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history. L.A. County is expected to pay hundreds of millions of dollars a year until 2030 to cover the ...

Girls inside Camp Scott in 2015 wait for instructions during a lunch break. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times) ...

County leaders said that layoffs of public workers were so far unlikely, but that the region’s financial challenges multiplied after the wildfires in January. By Shawn Hubler Reporting from Los ...