Despite a very notable 18% increase in homelessness across the entire United States, the numbers in Los Angeles have seen a decrease for the first time in seven years, according to a new report released by the U.

While homelessness reached unwanted levels across the United States this year, Los Angeles is one of only a handful of metropolitan areas to record a decrease in people living on the streets. On Friday,

This story has been updated to correct the time at which the fire started. LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – It took over 100 firefighters more than an hour and a half to contain a fire at a historic downtown Los Angeles building in an incident that officials declared a “Major Emergency.

The Morrison Hotel, the famous backdrop for The Doors’ 1970 album named after it, was destroyed by a huge fire on Dec. 26 while being occupied by dozens of homeless squatters. Almost 100 firefighters worked for at least two hours from 11 a.

Flames ripped through the building that was once the historic Morrison Hotel in downtown Los Angeles Thursday, with several dozen people inside managing to escape before firefighters put out the blaze.