Brentwood News

A power outage lasting more than two hours caused massive traffic jams across west Los Angeles and trapped at least a dozen people in elevators.

More than 150 firefighters are battling a brush fire that broke out around 1 p.m. in the Sepulveda Pass near Getty Center, which has been evacuated.

A brush fire is burning near the Getty Center in Brentwood. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, fire crews are dealing with a 2-acre blaze burning in heavy brush at 1200 Getty Center Drive.

Starline Tours' familiar double-decker red sightseeing buses are now looping through the Westside, with an official launch planned for Thursday.Passengers in the open-air conveyances may hop on and off at stops including SantaMonica College, the SantaMonica Pier, Montana Avenue, the Third Street Promenade, the Hammer Museum and the Brentwood ...

Two new brokerage offices have debuted in the L.A. region recently, one a new brokerage firm established by Robert E. Wasserman and the other a new branch of Brentwood-based Sperry Van Ness Real Estate Services in Calabasas.

Months before financial markets collapsed in fall 2008, boutique proprietor Lee-Lee Sprenger noticed that her usually free-spending customers were flinching at $900 price tags on sweaters fresh from Italy.

Federal authorities are conducting a criminal investigation of Ezri Namvar, the bankrupt Brentwood businessman who has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme, the Business Journal has learned.

A popular golf course at the VA Medical Center in Brentwood has been closed to the public as federal investigators look into suspected embezzlement of greens fees there.

Even as the shakeout from the Endeavor-WMA merger continues, leaders of the newly minted WME are planning to move aggressively next week to begin running the company as a unified entity.

More than 120 firefighters battled a blaze this evening at a three-story apartment building in Brentwood.

Los Angeles city traffic officials have abruptly dropped a plan to widen congested Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood after the proposal generated widespread community outcry, it was reported today.

Curbed has gotten its mitts on a letter from Rita Robinson, General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, a letter that directly asks Metro's CEO Arthur Leahy to stop pushing forward on a proposed widening of Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood .

Brentwood 's new Tavern is the kind of place the Westside has needed for years, a big, comfortable space that functions as a gathering place for the gentry without locking out the less well-heeled. The airy complex incorporates a takeout counter and a decent bakery, a selection of pricey condiments and a tiny wine shop that seems to specialize in ...

A roundup of local news stories for Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3: BOULEVARD NAMED AFTER SLAIN AIRPORT POLICE OFFICER A portion of Lincoln Boulevard, near Los Angeles International Airport, will be dedicated Saturday in memory of Officer Tommy Scott, the first airport police officer to die in the line of duty, when he was killed four years ago.

AT night, it's bright enough to stop traffic. One minute cars are buzzing along Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and La Brea.

This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. The Getty Museum has become an important visual touchstone of Los Angeles from its perch on a ridge-line of the Santa Monica Mountains, overlooking the Westside where the San Diego Freeway rolls down out of the hills.

Actor Ving Rhames has placed a 5,900-square-foot house that he owns in Los Angeles' Brentwood area on the market for $6,850,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Rhames' latest listing of a house that he owns in Brentwood.

This four-bedroom mid-century home in Brentwood is a little confusing. Some of it seems great, like the wall to ceiling windows, built-ins, wood paneling by the fireplace.

Residents in Brentwood are already speaking out against a proposal to widen a portion of Sunset Boulevard to ease traffic congestion.

Bel-Air residents are mourning the loss of several regal trees that for decades graced the Moraga Drive island.