Los Angeles – California Globe

Spencer Pratt Drops Video Showing Palisades Reservoir Still Bone Dry

September 17, 2026 11:42 amSeptember 17, 2026 11:42 am

Pacific Palisades resident and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt released new drone footage this week showing the Santa Ynez Reservoir remains bone dry — nearly 20 months after the January 2025 Palisades Fire that destroyed his family’s home...

Mayor Bass Exits Embattled LAHSA as Feds Probe Homeless Spending

September 9, 2026 11:59 amSeptember 9, 2026 1:00 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is leaving the commission that oversees the city’s lead homeless agency— the same board she appointed herself to, then rarely attended. A mayoral spokesperson told reporters Tuesday that Bass would step off the Los Angeles...

Aaron Ford’s ‘Lombardo Economy Is Worse’ Line Collides With the Jobs Numbers

September 2, 2026 3:58 pmSeptember 2, 2026 3:58 pm

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, the Democratic nominee for governor, left the state on a workday to sit in the Los Angeles studio of Pod Save America and tell a national progressive audience that Gov. Joe Lombardo has made Nevada’s...

Honduran National Charged With Fraudulently Registering to Vote in California

August 28, 2026 11:40 amAugust 29, 2026 2:18 pm

What Democrats have been telling us never happens, keeps happening. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced Friday the arrest of a Honduran national charged with fraudulently registering to vote in California — the latest concrete case after years of Democratic...

A Cultural Anthropologist Ran LAHSA’s Finances While a ‘High-Risk’ Vendor Cashed In

August 27, 2026 1:06 pmAugust 27, 2026 1:06 pm

Los Angeles officials approved millions of dollars in taxpayer contracts to a now-defunct homelessness nonprofit, Abundant Blessings, after their own compliance team labeled it “High-Risk” and delinquent, and they kept writing checks even after obtaining evidence of possible crimes. Alex...

Mayor Bass’s One-Day Pothole PR Stunt Leaves Ordinary Angelenos in the Dust

August 18, 2026 3:45 pmAugust 18, 2026 3:45 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass finally found a pothole worth her time. After Emmy-nominated journalist and comedy creator Simone Boyce posted an Instagram reel spotting a crater at Melrose and Gardner Street—one that “totally tore up my suspension”—and challenged the...

Los Angeles’s Homeless Crisis Deepens Under Mayor Bass

August 17, 2026 3:00 pmAugust 17, 2026 3:01 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass promised to end street homelessness. Instead, the latest numbers show her administration is delivering the opposite. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, released in late July, the...