Where Garcetti goes from here is momentarily upward -- television interviews, magazine covers -- before his handlers guide his approach back to the mundane mess at City Hall. How will he try to reconcile with labor leaders used to having their way?

Eric Garcetti will be Los Angeles' next mayor. By 3 a.m. Wednesday, with 100 percent of the votes counted, Garcetti had received 54 percent of the ...

LOS ANGELES — The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a cit...

It's time for Angelenos to go to the polls and cast their votes for a new mayor. But recent surveys are showing that going to the polls is what many of us aren't planning to do.

LOS ANGELES — Voters were choosing the next mayor of Los Angeles on Tuesday, but most residents probably haven't noticed. The turnout tally was...

Seven-ish months ago I hated Los Angeles, didn't care who ran for mayor, and had no conception that the city could do anything to hasten the day when the Big Money devil is no longer allowed to poison politics and, by extension, almost every aspect of life.

The two Los Angeles mayoral candidates pledged Tuesday to make education a priority, telling radio listeners during a live debate that the city's econ...

Mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel has been attacking her former rival Kevin James as a right-wing "Obama hater" now that he has endorsed City Councilman ...

What is so wrong with idealism anyway? It inspires and motivates people to get involved and do great things. Isn't that what is sorely needed in Los Angeles today?

For us to make the best decision regarding who to vote for, maybe it's time for us to adapt Reagan's words and "verify then vote." To accomplish this, we can use the following 10 steps to vet each candidate before we vote for them.

Weeks after the primary election, a faded "Jan Perry for Mayor" sign still hangs outside Laura Hendrix's art gallery in Leimert Park Village in South ...

An independent commission of 12 top business, labor and civic leaders -- all with close ties to City Hall -- was announced on Thursday with a goal of ...

As she defended a campaign shake-up from this past weekend, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel on Monday announced a big endorsement -- former...

Since coming in first place in the primary election with 33 percent of the vote, the Garcetti coalition continues to grow. It's growing because people are responding to Garcetti's leadership. I'm proud to join this coalition and endorse Garcetti because he is a leader who does things right.

One-time mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez endorsed Councilman Eric Garcetti over the weekend, saying he is the best choice to create jobs and fix the...

The Zimmer-Anderson school board race attracted national attention because it was seen as a test of the effort by corporate power-brokers to run schools like businesses, a strategy that they and the media misleadingly call "school reform."

LOS ANGELES -- He's a Rhodes scholar. She's UCLA. He can burn up the piano keys. She loves to watch her son playing soccer. He could become Los Angele...

The LA 2013 mayoral primary Tuesday came down to a runoff between Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel. The polls closed at 8 ...

LOS ANGELES — Voters in Los Angeles gave a collective shrug Tuesday to the contest to replace Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, turning out in small n...

Sensitivity to aesthetics and the arts does not a good mayor make. But I believe that sensitivity to aesthetics and the arts can make a good mayor better. This is my hope for Eric Garcetti if he goes the distance and becomes the next mayor of Los Angeles.

Does anyone really believe this so-called education reform moment has anything do with leveling the educational playing field for kids who were born in the wrong zip codes?

With the city elections heading into the final six weeks, the campaigns reported this week that donations have topped the $18 million mark and early s...

For those not invited to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, the next best thing might have been playing Frisbee barefoot in a downtown park a...

The second-largest city in America looks poised to elect the ultimate hipster candidate as its next mayor. Eric Garcetti drives a Prius, lives in h...

In a mostly amicable race so far, one of the first issues to divide the leading candidates for Los Angeles mayor involves another city altogether -- B...