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UPDATE: The Los Angeles Police Department's Detective Support and Vice Division, Threat Management Unit says it is investigating an altercation that occurred involving a Los Angeles City Councilmember during a community event. Police said they responded around 6:30 PM Friday in the 3500 block of…

The Los Angeles City Council is set to resume in-person meetings next week in the council chamber, according to the city clerk’s office. This week’s meetings were either delayed, adjourned, canceled or held virtually as protesters filled the council chamber demanding the resignations of the council…

Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de León said that he won’t resign from the Los Angeles City Council, even as a chorus of top Democrats have called for him to step down amid the fallout following the publication of a leaked audio conversation. Speaking to CBS Los Angeles’ Tom Wait, de León said that…

Acting Los Angeles City Council President Mitch O’ Farrell announced this morning that he is “removing councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León from their committee chairmanships as well as from committee assignments.” O’Farrell said that council rules stipulate that “council members must remain…

Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin choked back tears on Tuesday as he described hearing of the leaked audio conversation in which one of his colleagues made racist remarks about his Black son and another compared his child to a fashion accessory. “There are a lot of people who are now asking for…

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) and Councilman Kevin de Leon will take part in a Los Angeles mayoral candidates forum at ICM Partners on Tuesday that will focus on what is perhaps the biggest issue in the race: homelessness. The event, called Solving Homelessness and sponsored by Politico and ICM Partners, also will feature Alf…

As the polls predicted, Gavin Newsom came out on top on Tuesday night in the California primaries, becoming the frontrunner to replace Gov. Jerry Brown. He will go up against either John Cox or Antonio R. Villaraigosa in the Novermber election. Both are currently vying for that second place spot. Newsom, the former…

Kevin de León wants to be the next U.S. senator from the Golden State. The Democratic leader of the California Senate, who got the state’s expanded film and TV tax credits bill over the political finish line in 2014, today officially kicked off his campaign to unseat longtime incumbent Dianne Feinstein. The veteran…

Eleven productions in California have qualified for tax rebates and four of those shows — including HBO's Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy Veep — are relocating back to the state, California State Sen. Kevin de Leon told a crowd of more than 100 at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce State-of-the-State luncheon Friday on the…

UPDATED, Saturday, 7 AM: Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. weighed in early this morning on the passage of the bill to expand, extend and improve California Film and Television Tax Credit Program, lauding the move on behalf of the studios, saying it will bring…

EXCLUSIVE, 9:59 AM: Hollywood will still be getting a lot more money from the Golden State but not the $400 million that was announced on August 14 in the state Senate. Last minute negotiations last night between Gov. Jerry Brown's aides and the state legislature leadership have trimmed the increase of California's $10…

UPDATE, 1:30  PM: The state Senate Appropriations committee has just unanimously passed an expansion of California's $100 million Film and TV Tax Credit Program to $400 million. The expansion will also or sure see the end of the current lottery system that determines who gets the incentives. "The amendments will…