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Mayor Karen Bass removed Kristin Crowley as Los Angeles fire chief, saying 1,000 firefighters were sent home the morning the fires broke out and that Crowley refused to write an after-action report.

Los Angeles County sued SCE and Edison International alleging their equipment started the Eaton Fire, seeking at least hundreds of millions of dollars for destroyed parks, roads, cleanup and lost taxes.

Facing a nearly $1 billion shortfall, Mayor Karen Bass signed Los Angeles's roughly $14 billion 2025-26 budget on the charter deadline, restoring more than 1,000 of the positions her April plan had slated for layoff.

President Trump invoked 10 U.S.C. 12406 to call at least 2,000 California National Guard members into federal service for 60 days, over Governor Newsom's objection, to protect ICE agents and federal buildings during the Los Angeles protests.

Declaring a local emergency after 23 businesses were looted, Mayor Karen Bass ordered an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew across roughly a square mile of downtown Los Angeles, bounded by the 5, 10 and 110 freeways, and lifted it a week later.

Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison in Los Angeles federal court, alleging its equipment sparked the Eaton Fire and seeking more than $40 million for fighting it and restoring 8,000 acres of Angeles National Forest.

Mayor Karen Bass signed agreements with SEIU 721, AFSCME and other unions that averted the last of the roughly 600 civil-service layoffs and the planned furloughs in the 2025-26 budget, closing the city's $1 billion deficit.

The Los Angeles Fire Department published its 70-page After-Action Review of the first 36 hours of the Palisades Fire, citing too few resources on the initial attack, communication lapses and water shortages.

Double-decker buses carried the 2025 champions from Temple Street and Broadway through downtown Los Angeles, then on to a rally of more than 52,700 fans at Dodger Stadium.

The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to slow the raises in its Olympic Wage ordinance, pushing hotel and airport workers' $30 minimum from the 2028 Games to 2030, as business groups withdrew a ballot measure to repeal the city business tax.

Mayor Karen Bass signed a $14.85 billion balanced budget for fiscal 2026-27, $750 million more than the year before, keeping Inside Safe, funding 510 new police officers and more street and sidewalk repair.

In the 2 June 2026 primary Mayor Karen Bass led with 34.3% and Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Spencer Pratt for second as late ballots were counted, setting up a November runoff between two Democrats.

US District Judge Anne Hwang declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked 10-2 in favour of acquitting Jonathan Rinderknecht on all three arson charges, and prosecutors said they would try him again.

The 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count found 45,194 people homeless in the City of Los Angeles, up 3.4%, and about 73,000 countywide, up 1.2%, driven by a 7.9% rise in unsheltered homelessness in the city.

Jonathan Rinderknecht goes before a new jury on a superseding two-count indictment that separates the New Year's Day Lachman Fire from the Palisades Fire, after his first trial ended 10-2 for acquittal.

Mayor Karen Bass faces Councilmember Nithya Raman in the 3 November 2026 general municipal election, the first all-Democrat runoff for LA mayor after Raman edged out Spencer Pratt in June; the winner starts a four-year term on 14 December.

Los Angeles voters decide six charter amendments from the city's charter reform process, including a two-year budget and a parks funding guarantee, plus a half-cent sales tax for the Fire Department and a transfer-tax break for January 2025 fire victims.

The first test trial in the mass lawsuit against Southern California Edison over the Eaton Fire, with eight plaintiffs, opens before Judge Laura Seigle in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The ASICS Los Angeles Marathon's Stadium to the Stars course starts at Dodger Stadium and finishes on Santa Monica Boulevard at Avenue of the Stars.