A local neighborhood council held a budget town hall Saturday to discuss the city of Los Angeles’ budget and encourage LA residents to get involved in the city’s budgeting process. Read more...
Photo: Members of local neighborhood councils hosted a town hall Saturday in an effort to increase resident participation in LA city’s budgeting process. (Screen capture by Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin staff)
Los Angeles County is attempting to manage a health care system near full capacity while the COVID-19 case count continues to surge at an unprecedented rate. Read more...
Photo: LA County officials are dealing with the worst COVID-19 surge they have seen since the beginning of the pandemic. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The art for this post was updated Jan. 7 at 2:17 p.m. Following a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, county officials have told ambulance crews in Los Angeles County to save oxygen for critically ill patients and to not bring in patients, with or without COVID-19, to the hospital if they were unable to be resuscitated in the field. Read more...
Photo: Following two directives by the LA County’s Emergency Medical Services Agency, emergency workers are told not to bring patients back to the hospital if they were unable to resuscitate them. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated on Jan. 10 at 4:55 p.m. Southern California will remain in the state’s regional stay-at-home order for the time being because of low ICU capacity in the region, a state health official announced Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: LA County, which is part of the Southern California region, is set to remain in the state’s regional stay-at-home order for at least another four weeks. Even then, health officials project the region’s ICU capacity to remain at 0%, in which case the stay-at-home order will be extended further. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
A local neighborhood council voted in favor of a new stop sign in Westwood at a monthly meeting Dec. 2. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council’s Transportation and Safety Committee unanimously voted in favor of implementing a four-way stop sign at the intersection of Kelton Avenue and Ophir Drive at its Dec. Read more...
Photo: A local neighborhood council voted Dec. 2 in support of implementing a new stop sign at the intersection of Kelton Avenue and Ophir Drive in Westwood. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
Cooperative housing offers students an affordable, community-oriented housing option during the COVID-19 pandemic, students and alumni said. The University Cooperative Housing Association was established by students in 1936 to provide nondiscriminatory and less expensive housing for other students after the Great Depression. Read more...
Photo: Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, cooperative housing still offers students an affordable, community-oriented housing option. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Dec. 6 at 8:38 p.m. Southern California will enter the state’s regional stay-at-home order Sunday evening because of dropping intensive care unit capacity and rising COVID-19-related hospitalizations. Read more...
Photo: Southern California will enter the state’s regional stay-at-home order Sunday evening because of dropping intensive care unit capacity. Los Angeles County, which is in the Southern California region, will modify its stay-at-home order to match the state’s regional stay-at-home order. (David Rimer/Daily Bruin staff)
