As a native of [Los Angeles], I was offended to hear it tagged with such a denigrating label. But in recent years, and for different reasons, I’ve come to believe that a metropolis of the “developing world,” to use a more polite expression, is being born here. Its center is not in East Los Angeles, or any other Latino neighborhood; nor in our recently christened “Little Bangladesh.” The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.

Writers called L.A.'s Alma the country's best new restaurant. Now it needs $40,000 just to stay open. Chef Ari Taymor explains what happened.

Ten years in at the Los Angeles stalwart.

But it won't fully kick in until 2020. The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ramp up the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour from $9 over the next five years.

Cops in Los Angeles gunned down a 19-year-old man who was simply spraying graffiti inside an empty apartment, authorities said. The unidentified man has been hospitalized in critical condition after being shot Thursday afternoon inside an unoccupied residence in Long Beach, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Twenty billion barrels of oil sit beneath Los Angeles. Hidden in plain sight, thousands of wells pump day and night all over the city covered by hollow office buildings, camouflaged next to high schools, and concealed behind shopping malls.

That much isn’t under dispute. What led to the shooting is disputed by law enforcement and witnesses. An amateur videographer on Sunday captured a confrontation between a man and police on L.A’s Skid Row moments before he was shot to death while held down on the ground. The incident occurred around noon.

L.A. is the only one of America's 10 largest cities where street vending is illegal. But that could be changing.

Many expect that if Wilson is not indicted, the worst situation that could unfold in Ferguson could be similar to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that happened after Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in a trial regarding a videotaped police beating of Rodney King.

After months of testing, Los Angeles police officials have picked the company they would like to use to outfit hundreds of officers with on-body cameras. It remains unclear when officers will start to use the cameras - no contract has been signed and the department has yet to draft a policy on the use of the equipment - but the LAPD's decision to use Taser International as its vendor marks the department's latest move in its effort to utilize the new technology.

When Ryan O’Connell, 28, moved here from New York last year, he didn’t want a car. “I’ve always been so scared of driving,” he said. “I feel like I would be a bad driver.”

Keanu Reeves might need to tighten his home security system. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the actor's home was invaded two times in three days. On September 12, police responded to a burglary call in progress at Reeves' residence around 5 a.m. While nothing was taken from the home, a woman in her 40s was detained and later taken to a medical facility for further evaluation, according to the LAPD.

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $5-million settlement with the family of an unarmed National Guard veteran killed on live television in a barrage of gunfire at the end of a wild pursuit last year in downtown L.A.

As the film community battles to keep Hollywood close to home, another local industry – adult entertainment - is fleeing Los Angeles. The number of permits issued for adult productions has plummeted since November 2012, when voters approved a measure that requires performers to wear condoms on sets.

Los Angeles authorities are weighing whether they may legally block hobbyists from flying camera-equipped drones over police stations. The inquiry was prompted Friday after the LAPD confronted a Southern California man outside its Hollywood station. The cops told him he was trespassing for using a drone to capture footage of the station's parking lot, and ordered him to stop. The incident is posted to YouTube.

Negotiating a system of ropes and pulleys, a search-and-rescue crew labored for hours Friday through dirt and tilted terrain to free a trapped whale fossil from a Rancho Palos Verdes hillside. The approximately 16-million-year-old baleen whale fossil at the heart of the hubbub that prompted a caravan of news crews to quiet Browndeer Lane was stoic and unmoving throughout the four-hour ordeal.

One owner of the ultra-desirable Tesla Model S has seen his pride-and-joy cut in half and on fire after it was stolen and crashed in LA. While the Tesla Model S is undeniably one of the most desirable electric cars on the market thanks to it's sleek looks and excellent performance, it has also suffered scrutiny over the risk of fire breaking out after an accident.

A Hollywood star has described how a "river was running through the aisles" of one of Qantas's giant A380 jets about an hour after taking off from Los Angeles for Melbourne. Qantas said there had been no safety concerns and the captain had decided to turn back to Los Angeles, but passengers took to social media to share photos and their fears of being deluged shortly into the 16-hour flight in the middle of the night across the Pacific Ocean.

For an officer of the law, motorcycles have distinct advantages over the patrol car. They accelerate faster than anything with four wheels and can slip through traffic. They’re fuel efficient. But they’re also loud, and that can be problematic when sneaking up on perps.

Multiple videos have been posted online showing what uploaders described as hockey fans destroying a Los Angeles Police Department drone outside the Staples Center Friday night after the LA Kings won the NHL's Stanley Cup.