The future of city-owned properties was at the forefront of the most recent West Hollywood City Council meeting on Jan. 19 at which council members voiced support for developing the city’s underutilized...
West Hollywood pups will soon have an opportunity to frolic freely in a new off-leash dog play area in Plummer Park following a unanimous vote by the City Council.
The council approved the preliminary...
The city of West Hollywood held an introductory webinar on the housing element update on Jan. 19, offering the community its first chance to publicly ask questions and offer input into the process.
The...
For Garri Mikhail Eremyan II, who graduated from Fairfax High School in 2019, the United States Military Academy at West Point represented the dream of a lifetime. Since learning about it as a teenager,...
The Beverly Hills Planning Commission rejected a plan for an eight-story hotel at the south end of Restaurant Row at 55 N. La Cienega Blvd. during its Jan. 14 meeting. The proposal submitted by developer...
For over two decades, developers have sought to revitalize West Hollywood’s western gateway by bringing to life the Melrose Triangle project, which is planned for a 2.7-acre parcel of land...
While celebrations across the country commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 18, will be different this year – given the inability to hold large in-person gatherings due to COVID-19...
Beverly Hills is unlikely to halt elective cosmetic surgeries after the death of local plastic surgeon Payman Simoni from COVID-19, according to Mayor Lester Friedman.
Simoni, 50, allegedly contracted...
While travel dramatically declined over the past year due to the coronavirus pandemic, people’s desire to explore and learn certainly has not – and it’s under that premise that the city of Beverly...
In anticipation of building 4,000 new units by the end of the decade, West Hollywood is taking creative measures to determine how to increase the city’s residential housing stock. The final Regional...
The Beverly Hills City Council unanimously supported allowing local hotels to defer transient occupancy tax payments to the city for a third time on Dec. 21. The council had previously allowed...
Small brick and mortar retailers in West Hollywood can look forward to some additional economic help in the new year following the City Council’s vote on Dec. 21 to institute several business recovery...
On Dec. 28, the day before Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would be extending the regional stay-at-home order due to surging COVID-19 hospitalizations, La Scala issued the following statement regarding its planned...
Among the many lessons that COVID-19 offers, according to Beverly Hills Fire Chief Greg Barton, is that the community as a whole can always be better prepared for an emergency. Members of the Beverly...
For decades, staged performances by the Assistance League of Los Angeles’ Nine O’Clock Players, the oldest children’s theater company in Southern California, were the only opportunity many local...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is wasting no time in his efforts to reform the criminal justice system.
Precisely one minute after being sworn in as the county’s new district...
The West Hollywood City Council unanimously voted to approve a request to convert an existing static billboard to a digital billboard at 8743 Sunset Blvd., marking the first time a billboard...
Rachelle Marcus was installed as president of the Beverly Hills Unified Board of Education on Dec. 15 with Tristen Walker-Shuman installed as the new vice president.
“I know we’ve got a sensational...