The Latest Breaking News from Karen Bass

LOS ANGELES — Four weeks ago, Mayor Karen Bass' homelessness team found a warm place indoors for Princeton Parker, a 38-year-old living in a tent on L.A.'s Westside.

LOS ANGELES — A day after unions representing both teachers and support staff announced a three-day strike starting Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District was scrambling to prepare for the looming shutdown of 1,000 campuses — while at the same time, trying to prevent the massive walkout.

It is historically significant that America’s four largest cities have Black mayors. Eric Adams of New York, Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Sylvester Turner of Houston run municipalities where 18 million of us live. They are chief executives in charge of some of the most…

The city will host the Games in 2028 and the costs – as they always do – are already mounting. The city’s mayor needs to grab back some control

Nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles City Council passed a controversial ordinance that banned camping by homeless people near schools, day-care centers and parks as well as any other locations that council members wanted to decree off-limits. All they had to do was submit a resolution with a list…

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore and Mayor Karen Bass want to make it easier to fire or otherwise punish officers who have committed serious misconduct, and they have the right idea. Police must earn the trust of the communities they serve, yet trusting them is hard if officers can’t…

Since January, the city has cleared nearly 600 encampments.

LOS ANGELES — Exhilarated, he proclaimed "I love LAUSD" in sign language during a 125-mph skydive in a Twitter video. He posed on horseback in Topanga Canyon because connecting with nature is "indispensable to the holistic education of our students." He has stood alongside Dr. Dre, George Clooney, Los Angeles…

LOS ANGELES — In a school gymnasium painted yellow and black to symbolize the star that Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, Mayor Karen Bass addressed a crowd of 400 who had gathered for a town hall on antisemitic violence after the shootings of two Jewish men…