The Bureau of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, created in November 2022, was supposed to spearhead recruitment of ...

Months after the most destructive wildfire in modern Los Angeles history, Mayor Karen Bass is seeking to add scores of new ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a budget proposal that would fold the LAFD’s Equity Bureau into the Professional ...

Mayor Karen Bass foisted blame for the city’s mishandling of January’s deadly Los Angeles wildfires and their aftermath on ...

Email communications between Mayor Karen Bass and LAFD Fire Chief Kristin Crowley from Jan. 1, 2025, to Jan. 8, 2025. Following the release of text messages related to the January fires to other ...

On Feb. 21, Bass removed LAFD Kristin Crowley as fire chief, citing Crowley’s deployment decisions before the fire as a reason. The Times reported in January that Crowley and her staff chose not ...

In the days after the Palisades fire broke out, then-Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said that budget cuts had hampered the department's ability to fight the wind-driven blaze. Bass and her team ...

A Investigation has discovered dozens of parcels of lands in the Palisades Fire zone that presented fire danger due to ...

In one of his final acts as mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti stood alongside Kristen Crowley, whom he had appointed as the city's first female fire chief, and announced a new bureau at the Fire ...