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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Police declared an unlawful assembly Saturday evening near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. One person is dead after a fire broke out at a high-rise apartment complex early Tuesday morning in downtown Los ...

Downtown L.A.’s historic The Original Pantry Cafe will reopen its doors to customers after suddenly shutting down six months ago. Why it matters: The historic restaurant at the corner of 9th and ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Two people were killed and six others injured in a mass shooting in an area of downtown Los Angeles where several parties took place overnight, authorities said. The ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

A new hotel and residential complex in Downtown Los Angeles is heading toward construction. The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has given the green light to a proposal from L.A.-based Jade ...

Downtown Los Angeles was facing impossible odds. But like some kind of civic Rocky, it has come battling back from the brink. Such a statement would’ve been difficult to fathom over the past five ...

The invention of the French dip is one of the most contested debates in Los Angeles food history: Two LA restaurants — Cole’s French Dip and Philippe the Original — have both made the claim that they ...

A 32-year-old U.S. citizen who was detained by masked federal immigration agents downtown, prompting her family to report a kidnapping to police and sparking allegations of LAPD cooperation with the ...