September 6, 2026
September 6, 2026
Across from Crypto.com Arena, three unfinished towers still wear the spray paint that made them famous. Oceanwide Plaza was supposed to be a luxury hotel, condos, and retail podium - Beijing capital planted in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. Instead it became a $1.2 billion steel skeleton, stalled at about 60 percent complete after 2019, tagged across dozens of floors in 2024, then forced into bankruptcy. A local-Australian joint venture is now trying to buy it out for...
WEST LOS ANGELES - A man was shot Friday afternoon in the Sawtelle neighborhood of West Los Angeles, and police are searching for a suspect. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles Division responded about 4 p.m. Sept. 4 to the intersection of Sawtelle Boulevard and Ohio Avenue after reports of a shooting. They found a man with gunshot wounds. He was transported to a hospital with injuries to the head and torso and was alive when officers arrived....
A gay photographer known for covering pro-Palestinian street protests and a friend were shot dead in a Tucson parking lot this week — then the gunman turned the weapon on himself. Police say the massacre outside Venture-N, a longtime midtown gay bar, was a targeted hate crime against the LGBTQ community. The killer, they say, had a list of other gay-friendly businesses on him and left more writings at home spelling out why he did it. Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent...
SACRAMENTO - Conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley sued California Friday, accusing Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta of trying to muzzle him after he started exposing alleged fraud in taxpayer-funded immigrant programs. America First Legal and San Diego lawyer John W. Howard filed the federal complaint in Sacramento on behalf of Shirley against Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber. They want a judge to declare Assembly Bill 2624 unconstitutional and block...
A baby bottlenose dolphin was pulled from the water, held aloft like a prize, and later found dead on a Ceuta beach Wednesday - sparking viral outrage, animal-rights complaints, and a Guardia Civil probe. Footage circulating on social media shows a group of men on Playa del Trampolín lifting the small cetacean amid cheers and clapping. One man grins while holding the animal overhead. Another records on a smartphone. Local influencer Juan Ruiz, who captured part of the scene,...
A new investigation into Perla on Broadway, the first high-rise built in downtown Los Angeles' historic Theatre District in a century, found that housing marketed as starter condos has instead become a financial asset sitting largely unused. Independent journalist Yoonj Kim pulled deeds, assessor records, and listing histories for the 450-unit tower. Five years after opening, developer Broadway Elite LLC - the local arm of Shanghai Construction Group - still held 253 units....
Tens of thousands of people filled plazas across Spain on Wednesday night, from Madrid's Cibeles to Valencia, Barcelona, Seville and Ceuta itself, demanding that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez act on the migrant crisis that has left a Spanish city of about 85,000 residents overwhelmed for more than a month. Spaniards are chanting that Interior Minister Marleska must resign immediately. The official count in Madrid was about 50,000. City Hall put the figure closer to 150,000....
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. - The annual pilgrimage to Burning Man began with a familiar rite of passage: hours of sitting still in the desert. On Sunday, Aug. 30, the first full day of Burning Man 2026, the line of cars, RVs, and trucks waiting to reach the gate stretched for miles across the Black Rock Desert. Wait times peaked at more than eight hours before easing to about five hours by evening, according to official traffic updates and reports from SFGATE. Aerial photos of the...
A pedestrian struck by a car at Ocean Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard on the morning of Saturday, August 29, remains at the center of a grim neighborhood vigil this week, after friends posted that she was being taken off life support today. The collision closed the intersection while Santa Monica police investigated. The city issued an alert telling motorists to stay away from Ocean and San Vicente while officers worked the scene. That official traffic notice is consistent...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a photograph of two women in uniform from a Canadian youth cadet program on X on Sept. 1, 2026, with the caption "🇨🇦 (this is real)." The post, viewed more than 17 million times, was widely interpreted as mocking the physical appearance of a Cadet Instructors Cadre officer. The image originated from an Aug. 24 Instagram post by the Vernon Cadet Training Centre in British Columbia celebrating the conclusion of its...
A 32-year-old Bank of America vice president was fatally stabbed Monday afternoon in a random attack in Times Square, authorities said, before police shot and killed the assailant after she refused to drop two knives and charged officers. The incident began around 4:24 p.m. on Aug. 31 near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. Pamela Cisneros, 49, of Queens, pulled two kitchen knives from a red Target bag and stabbed a 68-year-old man in the abdomen as he waited to cross the...
