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LA is in a budget crisis. Here are your candidates for City Controller LA Controller Kenneth Mejia says he wants transparency and accountability on municipal finances. His challenger says he will scrutinize how every public dollar is spent.

The FIFA World Cup tournament is projected to generate around $892 million in total economic activity across the county, according to the Los Angeles World Cup 2026 Host Committee. @thelalocalorg.bsky.social @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social

Keum-soon Lee was a light in every community she was part of. She performed at an LA Kings game earlier this year with her harmonica ensemble and was struck by a hit-and-run driver on her way from morning prayer at her church.

Koreatown in LA is one the city’s greatest neighborhoods. Yesterday I got Korean skincare, ate fried chicken, and bought these pineapple cream cookies I’m obsessed with all in one building!

LA undocumented college students are still fighting for access to campus jobs Students lobbied elected leaders, sued the University of California, and even engaged in a hunger strike to access campus jobs. A proposed state law would give them what they seek.

Iran’s sports minister says country won’t participate in World Cup, throwing LA matches in limbo

Nonprofit Pico Union Project gets new leadership as co-founders step down

Sasheer Zamata, Jane Fonda, Jenny Yang and more to ‘Ridicule a Ruler’ at immigrant rights comedy show

This week in LA: Government meetings you don’t want to miss

Los Angeles promises the $2.6 billion Convention Center expansion will be a job generator and bring in tax funds over the next 30 years. But businesses in the neighborhood say their customers are not coming back. @thelalocalorg.bsky.social @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social

For more than five years, Gurpreet Singh, 42, has looked out for the MacArthur Park community-responding to mental health crises and overdoses by administering Narcan or calling 911. This interview is from @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social and Hanna Kang @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

Hearing from employees at LAUSD headquarters. Board members and their staff are also not able to enter their offices. There are emergency meetings scheduled this morning to figure out how to proceed with committees scheduled to meet later in the day

“We have senior citizen retirees showing up saying, ‘I’m an old white woman — how can I help?’ We have students from community colleges and universities." Story @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

Everything changed in October at Oscar’s green card adjustment appointment— a routine interview with immigration officials to determine whether he could become a lawful permanent resident. Reporting @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

FBI Director Kash Patel decided to fly to Italy and make a fool of himself in front of Team USA. Somebody needs to tell this guy that FBI doesn’t stand for Frat Bro Initiation.

Here’s the full scene work - “Danza Macabre” by Israel Campos.

Pepe the parrot of Hermon

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El Mencho was the last of the old guard—the final mass-trafficking titan standing alongside El Chapo and El Mayo—now fallen, marking the end of an era in Mexican organized crime. This is a developing story. The latest: lataco.com/mexico-viole... By @theglutster.bsky.social

A former Pico Union party supply warehouse is now home to a growing number of luxury classic cars. How one man turned a weekend side gig into a thriving car rental agency. By @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social for @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

The proposed measure would impose a one-time tax of up to 5% on individuals and trusts with a net worth above $1 billion. Backers, including @sanders.senate.gov, estimate about 200 California residents would be affected. By @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

The proposal to fence MacArthur Park could make the space easier to maintain, according to city officials. But residents worry this would drastically change the fabric of the neighborhood. From @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social and Hanna Kang for @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

Self-storage developer La Tierra Consulting uses Papa Cristo’s logo in renderings presented to the Neighborhood Council, but has not actually asked Chrys Chrys if he wants to reopen his displaced family business. Neighbors say they want housing. Sigh... thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

A Redondo Beach developer plans to turn Papa Cristo’s longtime home in Pico Union into a storage facility — but says that he still wants to honor the restaurant’s more than 70 year legacy in some way. @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

DAILY MEMO: ICE Is Still Active in Southern California @eltragon.bsky.social

From Buenos Aires to the Super Bowl stage, Argentine designers Federico Laboreau and Maximiliano Pizzi helped bring Bad Bunny’s iconic casita to life — and this is how they did it. Story from @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social for @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

What we know about the people taken during Wednesday’s ICE raids on the Eastside

Shameful: Curren Price's office claims to know nothing of Urban Alchemy plan to shut down due to LAHSA underpayment, the same week Price is sent to trial on corruption charges. Wonder how many staffers no longer live in CA, like one quoted in this story? thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

Are you a business in LA that will be participating in tomorrow's #NationalStrike #GeneralStrike? We'd like to hear from you!

ICE Tracker today 1/28

The hottest concert in Koreatown this past weekend may have been an impromptu, after-hours, one-man show at a closed shopping mall. The crowds at the Koreatown Plaza didn’t gather for Korean eats at H Mart. They came to catch viral saxophonist Nathanial Young. #Koreatown

Feeling helpless? Here’s how YOU can help take a stand against ICE! lataco.com/five-easy-wa... By @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

Trump’s deportation machine is out of control. People are being targeted based on the color of their skin, citizens are being killed in the street, and this administration is dodging accountability. We warned this would happen when Trump targeted LA last year. It's time to get ICE out NOW.

Federal agents descended on a quiet Willowbrook block shortly after 7 a.m., startling residents in the unincorporated Los Angeles community.

DAILY MEMO: ICE and Border Patrol Continue Shooting and Assaulting Southern California Immigrants, Citizens, Women, and Minors

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Grand Central Market update: Roast to Go has passed over to legacy businesses heaven and the La Sandunga Oaxacan stall is coming soon.

"It's not just about always being on alert, but sometimes, if [employers] hire us, they threaten us with ICE so they don't have to pay us," a laborer named José says in Spanish. The full story: lataco.com/laborers-sca... By Janette Villafana

Some of the detainees at the California City detention facility were detained at immigration hearings. Many did not have prior criminal records, according to Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. They conducted an oversight tour at the facility on Tuesday. Story by @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social

Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice sued California, along with 22 other states and Washington, D.C., for access to their full, unredacted voter files. That includes driver’s license, social security numbers and other sensitive data. @laist.com

Memo is back.

The “graded response” model calls for police officers in regular uniforms to be deployed at protests before sending in heavily-armed officers in riot gear and specialized units such as SWAT, if needed. The full story: lataco.com/lapd-graded-... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

The pocket park, set to slot right next to the Pío Pico–Koreatown Branch Library, was formally approved in August 2017. Nearly a decade later — and after $22 million in public funding was committed — the park remains unfinished. Story from @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social

Nearly one person died every week in LA County jail custody last year Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposition 36 brought an older, sicker population into already crowded facilities the county promised to reform.

New independent media outlet The LA Local, launched in response to how legacy media is failing Angelenos, expands on the Boyle Heights Beat channel with coverage of Inglewood, South LA, Koreatown, Pico Union and Westlake. thelalocal.org/news/welcome...