More than a decade after it went viral, Keizo Shimamoto's ramen burger is back — and better than ever, he says. (Gab Chabrán / LAist ) While the name Keizo Shimamoto may not ring a bell, his most famous creation likely does — the ramen burger. In 2013, while slinging bowls at Smorgasburg in Brook...
A presentation during a LAHSA Commission meeting on Friday, April 25, 2025. (Samanta Helou Hernandez / LAist) This week, Los Angeles' embattled homelessness agency made a major shift when it decided to no longer conduct the region's annual homeless count and give up management of...
LAist (KPCC / Southern California Public Radio) · Sep 18, 2026
Faculty and students say UC schools don't have a consistent approach to AI use. (Imen Ben Youssef / Hans Lucas / Getty Images) Years after generative artificial intelligence software became widely accessible, the University of California system still does not have a consistent ap...
LAist (KPCC / Southern California Public Radio) · Sep 18, 2026
The average price for a gallon of diesel was still hovering around a record-high of $6.43 as of Friday morning, according to the latest data published by GasBuddy....
Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 200 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate....
An 8-year-old boy was beaten, left chained up and starved over the course of a year, losing more than 100 pounds before he was found dead last October, according to testimony in his parents' murder case. Questions remain about why school officials and social workers failed to che...