County transportation officials announced a potential sales tax measure Friday that would fund the completion of the Purple Line by 2024 and build a train that runs from Westwood to the Los Angeles International Airport, among other transportation projects. Read more...
Photo: LA Metro officials released a plan for a potential half-cent sales tax increase, which would fund the Purple Line and a train from Westwood to LAX. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The Westwood Village Improvement Association, also known as the BID, is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. The BID was created by property and business owners in August 2011 to provide Westwood Village with functions the City of Los Angeles could not provide. Read more...
The Westwood Community Council meets several times a year to discuss issues relevant to the Westwood Village business and residential community. Comments by public officials Carmen Healey, assistant director of UCLA Community and Local Government Relations, introduced Rachel Kennison, assistant director at the Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences, to speak about the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. Read more...
A Los Angeles City Council member plans to replace three members of the Westwood Community Design Review Board, including its chair, who have served for longer than their term limits allow, city officials said earlier this month. Read more...
Two men accused of killing UCLA student Andrea “Andy” DelVesco in the summer of 2015 will be arraigned a second time after their preliminary hearing concluded Monday. Read more...
Photo: Steve Cron, Eric Marquez’s lawyer, examines evidence alongside deputy district attorney Victor Avila pertaining to Andrea “Andy” DelVesco’s death. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Alberto Medina kept glancing over his shoulder at the parents of the UCLA student he is accused of murdering while listening to the student’s friends testify what happened the morning she died. Read more...
Photo: Dmitry Gorin, Alberto Medina’s attorney, questioned a witness’ account of what happened the day Andrea DelVesco was killed last September. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Police are searching for two men who threatened a UCLA student with a gun and stole from him in Westwood on Tuesday night. The student reported he was walking near Weyburn and Selby avenues east of Westwood Village about 10 p.m. Read more...
