Articles by Carla Hall

In a region where traffic is an all-consuming complaint, a half-cent sales tax increase to improve traffic flow might seem like a sure thing. Read more

Los Angeles City Councilman Tony Cardenas announced today that he would ask the City Council to outlaw the keeping of elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo and instead establish a city sanctuary for pachyderms. Read more

On a warm evening last summer, a few hundred people crammed into the backyard of the Beverly Hills home belonging to Tracy Torme, son of crooner Mel. Read more

Just minutes before donning her prayer shawl, Rabbi Lisa Edwards beckoned the couple she was about to marry and sat them down to run through her checklist. Read more

Dozens of frustrated Los Angeles city shelter workers, as well as many volunteer animal welfare advocates, brought their complaints about the shelter system’s general manager, Ed Boks, to a public hearing at Van Nuys City Hall on Tuesday night. Read more

ZaZu hangs upside down on the curtains of the apartment window, surveying all that is his: the jumble of colorful plastic balls, the climbing ladders, the panoramic view of the ocean. Read more

If you’ve been on the L.A. Animal Services website any time in the last couple of months, you know the department maintains a digital countdown of the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the city’s spay/neuter law goes into effect Wednesday. Read more

A former assistant principal in the Los Angeles Unified School District already facing charges of molesting three students was arrested again Thursday on charges of molesting a fourth, authorities said. Read more

Union representatives for Los Angeles animal shelter workers plan to give the City Council a petition today demanding the dismissal of general manager Ed Boks and assistant general manager Linda Barth. Read more