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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.

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.

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.

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.

A house at 915 N Kagawa Street, built by Thomas James Homes in about six months, became the first home rebuilt after the Palisades Fire to be cleared for occupancy.

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.

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.

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.