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As heavy rains showered the city this week, LA Mayor Karen Bass pushed ahead with her promise to get some of the homeless off the streets and into motel rooms, as part of her “Inside Safe” program. → Read More
Just as the holidays get underway, two new subvariants of Omicron are spreading rapidly, pushing up new COVID cases in LA County 54% since November 1. → Read More
With more and more people returning to the workplace since the pandemic began, you might be wondering: could the air in your office carry viruses like covid and... → Read More
Affordable housing is hard to come by in LA and the NBC4 I-Team has discovered why some rent stabilized apartments are disappearing from the market. The I-Team found that some people are leasing affordable apartments meant for long term tenants, and then offering them to tourists on AirBnb, making a sizable profit. → Read More
Miles of the 101 Freeway, which just last year were covered in tons of uncollected trash and hundreds of homeless tents, are now being dramatically cleaned up and neatly landscaped by Caltrans. → Read More
The owner of a car repair shop—exposed by the NBC4 I-Team to be illegally hogging street parking with fancy cars — has been ordered by an LA Superior Court judge to pay a $1,000 fine, and complete 100 hours of community service. → Read More
The NBC4 I-Team has found that the city of LA has a backlog of 50,000 complaints about broken sidewalks. An audit conducted by the city controller last year said sidewalk repairs are taking way too long in LA, costing the city about $7 million a year to settle injury claims. → Read More
Some of the nation’s top public health experts tell the NBC4 I-Team that they would wear masks in most venues on a vacation, even if they’re not required. → Read More
The state on Monday announced an agreement with the Boeing Corporation to clean up a large part of one of California’s most contaminated sites–the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL)–located in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi Valleys. → Read More
The I-Team found numerous studies that concluded home antigen tests can produce false negatives. Here's what an I-Team reporter learned firsthand. → Read More
A government study of 450 people says that “mixing vaccines may enhance the immune response” to the COVID-19 virus. → Read More
As you drive down Fountain Avenue in the heart of LA’s popular Silverlake neighborhood, there are now plenty of open meters and plenty of parking spots on residential streets. → Read More
Even though the US Food and Drug Administration Tuesday approved a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for anyone over 50, public health experts don’t all agree over who should get it. → Read More
When Brian Behrend needs to park outside his Silverlake house, it can be nearly impossible to find a spot, because entire blocks in his area are illegally hogged by fleets of Porsches, Ferraris, and Maseratis. → Read More
When Keith Jefferies of Sherman Oaks needed a COVID test on January 5th, he pulled into a site on Chandler Boulevard with a sign that said “Free COVID Tests.” Three weeks later, he was still waiting for his results from the lab supposedly processing the tests–Genstar Labs. → Read More
Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health spend their days making detailed mathematical forecasts on the Omicron surge, and they tell the NBC4 I-Team that rising case numbers might have peaked on Tuesday in the LA Metro Area. → Read More
When Branden Adams wanted to get a COVID test, he stopped by a pop-up test site he spotted under a tent on the corner of 3rd and Fairfax in LA. Days later, Adams still hadn’t gotten his results. → Read More
In the next week, millions of people will be attending or hosting holiday gatherings, unlike a year ago when there were no vaccines available and public health experts told everyone to stay home. → Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy demolished a building using explosives last month at the highly contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a former nuclear and rocket test site in the hills above LA. The building was part of a complex at SSFL used to develop nuclear reactors. → Read More
Southern Californians are being attacked by what officials say could be a record number of blood-sucking Aedes mosquitoes, also known as “ankle biters.” → Read More