Rebecca Ellis covers Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered Portland city government for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Ellis wrote for the Miami Herald, freelanced for the Providence Journal and reported as a Kroc fellow at NPR in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Brown University in 2018. Ellis was a finalist for the Livingston Awards in 2022 for her investigation into abuses within Portland’s private security industry and in 2024 for an investigation into sexual abuse inside L.A. County’s juvenile halls.
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Both L.A. County and city are saddled with billions in unexpected costs. How come only one faces a $1-billion deficit?
Long before the evacuation order came, law enforcement officers knew the Eaton fire was spreading in west Altadena, dozens of 911 call logs reveal.
Costs from the Eaton and Palisades fires include soil testing, debris removal and beach cleanup, Fesia Davenport, L.A. County’s chief executive, said Monday.
The supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to create a “unified permitting authority,” which they say will cut through county bureaucracy to speed up the approval process.
The $4 billion, if approved, would appear to dwarf the largest sex abuse settlements in U.S. history.
L.A. County social workers missed warning signs about Secret Daniel, according to a March 21 claim, a prelude to what relatives say will be a $75-million lawsuit.
The $510,000 gift from a Taiwan-based international chamber of commerce would benefit the 54 firefighters of Arcadia. But the Arcadia Fire Department Foundation wasn’t allowed to accept donations because it wasn’t registered with the state.
The plan would move more than $300 million and hundreds of workers out of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority and into a new county department.
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is looking to pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of LAHSA, a move that unnerves some at L.A. City Hall.
If the teen dished out a beating to a misbehaving kid — someone who cursed at officers or defied their orders — he would be rewarded with In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A.