Even as managers across the U.S. say there's been a jump in the number of people working from the office again, attendance in California is still less than half of what it used to be.
Gibson Dunn billed the city $1.8 million for two weeks' worth of work in May. Now, the city attorney wants to increase the firm's contract by $5 million.
Facing retirement, a couple tore down their dated midcentury home in Monterey Park and built a comfortable modern home that curves around their 1956 swimming pool.
A residential skyscraper has been approved for construction in the South Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, though it looks unlikely that work on it will begin soon.