Colleen Shalby is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She has covered education, the pandemic, the vaccine rollout and breaking news throughout California. She was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of a dive-boat fire off the Santa Barbara coast. Shalby grew up in Southern California and graduated from George Washington University. She previously worked for PBS NewsHour and joined The Times in 2015.
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Proposed cuts to LADOT, StreetsLA and the Bureau of Engineering come as residents press city officials to implement a decade-old mobility plan and improve traffic safety.
Los Angeles International Airport dropped from the Airports Council International’s annual top 10 list of busiest airports by traveler numbers.
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Metro moved forward on the Vermont Transit Corridor project without new bike lanes -- a decision that transportation safety advocates say ignores a mandate to follow the city’s mobility plan.
The threat was made electronically via Metro’s public complaint portal and affected roughly 100 crew members working on the C-Line extension in the South Bay, a spokesman said.
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More than two months after the Eaton fire, Altadena residents wonder how long it will take to rebuild their homes, what the process will require and whether they can manage the wait.
As the Trump administration threatens federal funding, Metro is assessing what allocations could be vulnerable and if cuts could affect the 2028 Olympics.