David Zahniser

Los Angeles

Staff Writer and Reporter at Los Angeles Times

L.A. Times reporter covering Los Angeles City Hall and other L.A.-related things. Ex-L.A. Weekly, Ex-Daily Breeze, ex cetera

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Articles

Faced with a $30 minimum wage, hotel investors look outside L.A.

1 day ago | businessandamerica.com | David Zahniser |Suhauna Hussain

Perched high above the Cahuenga Pass, the 24-story Hilton Los Angeles Universal City Hotel is positioned to be a prime gathering spot for visitors arriving for the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sun Hill Properties Inc., which manages the 495-room hotel, has already signed a “room block” agreement with the LA28 organizing committee, reserving hundreds of rooms for Olympics fans.
Faced with a $30 minimum wage, hotel investors start looking outside L.A.

1 day ago | latimes.com | David Zahniser |Suhauna Hussain

Perched high above the Cahuenga Pass, the 24-story Hilton Los Angeles Universal City Hotel is positioned to be a prime gathering spot for visitors arriving for the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sun Hill Properties Inc., which manages the 495-room hotel, has already signed a “room block” agreement with the LA28 organizing committee, reserving hundreds of rooms for Olympics fans.
With L.A. in crisis, Mayor Karen Bass' hiring goal for the LAPD slips further out of reach

4 days ago | latimes.com | David Zahniser |Julia Wick

Two years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass laid out an ambitious and expensive goal for her first city budget: restore the size of the Los Angeles Police Department to 9,500 officers. At the time, the LAPD was struggling with recruitment, and Bass — just four months into her job — openly worried the department would soon fall below 9,000. Now, the mayor’s hiring goal looks even more out of reach.
To stave off layoffs, LA council members seek to cut police officer hiring

5 days ago | gazettextra.com | Noah Goldberg |David Zahniser

LOS ANGELES - Faced with a projected $1-billion shortfall, a key committee of the Los Angeles City Council moved forward Thursday with a plan to reduce the number of police officers and cancel Mayor Karen Bass' plan for creating a homelessness unit within the fire department.
To stave off layoffs, LA council members seek to cut police officer hiring

5 days ago | thederrick.com | Noah Goldberg |David Zahniser

LOS ANGELES — Faced with a projected $1-billion shortfall, a key committee of the Los Angeles City Council moved forward Thursday with a plan to reduce the number of police officers and cancel Mayor Karen Bass' plan for creating a homelessness unit within the fire department.
To stave off layoffs, L.A. council members seek to cut police officer hiring

5 days ago | latimes.com | Noah Goldberg |David Zahniser

Faced with a projected $1-billion shortfall, a key committee of the Los Angeles City Council moved forward Thursday with a plan to reduce the number of police officers and cancel Mayor Karen Bass’ plan for creating a homelessness unit within the fire department.
To stave off layoffs, LA council members seek to cut police officer hiring

5 days ago | dailyitem.com | Noah Goldberg |David Zahniser

LOS ANGELES — Faced with a projected $1-billion shortfall, a key committee of the Los Angeles City Council moved forward Thursday with a plan to reduce the number of police officers and cancel Mayor Karen Bass' plan for creating a homelessness unit within the fire department.
Amid Trump trade war, L.A. urged to hold off on wage hikes for tourism workers

1 week ago | latimes.com | David Zahniser |Suhauna Hussain

Workers with Unite Here Local 11 urge the Los Angeles City Council’s economic development committee to approve a package of minimum wage hikes for hotel, restaurant and aviation workers. Five months ago, the Los Angeles City Council endorsed a plan to boost wages for airport and hotel workers to $30 per hour by 2028 — just in time for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the city — while also requiring new healthcare payments. For some in L.A.’s tourism industry, that moment feels like another era.
L.A. mayor says animal shelters won't close. Rescue groups are still on edge

1 week ago | latimes.com | Kaitlyn Huamani |David Zahniser

Nathan Kehn has rescued cats and kittens from some tough spots — dumpsters, an abandoned police car and, in one case, a cramped space behind a water heater. The Sherman Oaks resident swung into action yet again last week after hearing that the Los Angeles Animal Services department was threatened with $4.8 million in reductions, part of a larger list of cuts in Mayor Karen Bass’ latest budget.
How serious is L.A. City Hall about layoffs? The messages have been mixed

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | David Zahniser

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who delivered her State of the City address on Monday, said she is hoping to avoid city employee layoffs. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered the bad news last week to a room full of activists in South Los Angeles: With the city in financial trouble, jobs were on the chopping block. Yet the way Bass framed the situation, it was hard to tell how bad the news really was.