The post was updated on Sept. 25 at 12:10 a.m. A UCLA student was found dead Monday morning after a fire in her Roebling Avenue apartment. Police responded to a call about 7 a.m. to a first-floor apartment at 10954 Roebling Ave. The unit belonged to several members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. LAPD spokesman […]
Category Archives: Westwood
Westwood, UCLA community recalls hosting the 1984 Olympics
Westwood and UCLA community members recall the 1984 Summer Olympics with fondness and pride as the Los Angeles 2024 Exploratory Committee refines its bid to host the Games again in 2024. Sandy Brown, president of the Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association and member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Committee, said Los Angeles has never looked […]
Westwood BID recap – Sept. 17
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 Los Angeles could not provide. Its board of directors meets monthly. Executive Director Andrew Thomas […]
UCLA student assaulted with bottle at fraternity house
University police is searching for a man who hit a UCLA student with a bottle during a fight at a fraternity party late Saturday. A man entered Sigma Phi Epsilon’s house on Landfair Avenue about 11:30 p.m. with an unknown number of other people, all of whom were not invited to the party, according to […]
Metro requests federal funds for Purple Line Extension to Westwood
L.A. County Metro asked for about $2 billion in federal funding so it can expedite the Purple Line Extension project to Westwood by 2024 for Los Angeles’ bid to host the Summer Olympics that year. In two letters addressed to the Federal Transit Administration sent Tuesday, Metro CEO Phillip Washington asked to participate in a […]
Westwood Neighborhood Council recap – Sept. 9
The Westwood Neighborhood Council meets monthly to discuss issues pertaining to Westwood Village and the surrounding areas. Comments by public officials Chris Ragsdale, Los Angeles Police Department’s senior lead officer for Westwood, said crime is decreasing in the city after a 20 to 30 percent increase at the start of the year. He added the […]
Community group Fix the City files lawsuit against city of Los Angeles
A West Los Angeles community group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the city, calling for the Los Angeles City Council to rescind its approval of the L.A. Mobility Plan 2035. Community group Fix the City claims the mobility plan would significantly increase traffic congestion, air pollution and emergency response times. Mobility Plan 2035, which the […]