Three newly appointed neighborhood council members hope to increase student awareness of issues in Westwood. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council appointed Nina Long, Nuha Khalfay and Furkan Yalcin as council members at its Sept. Read more...
Photo: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council appointed Nina Long, Nuha Khalfay and Furkan Yalcin as council members at its Sept. 2 meeting. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A piece of home-cooked Italian cuisine will make its debut in Westwood this month despite a rising vacancy rate in the Village. The restaurant, called Prince of Venice, is set to open at 1091 Broxton Ave. Read more...
Photo: The new Italian restaurant Prince of Venice will open in Westwood in mid-October, offering a taste of home-cooked Italian cuisine. (Daily Bruin file photo)
University police are investigating phone calls from people impersonating police and demanding payment. Several members of the UCLA community received calls from a person who claimed to be from campus police starting mid-September, according to a UCPD crime alert. Read more...
University police arrested a landlord in late August in his attempt to evict several UCLA students before their lease expired. Stephen Copen, a nephrologist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center who owns several Beverly Hills properties, rented out his 611 Gayley Ave. Read more...
Photo: University police arrested a landlord for vandalism in his attempt to evict UCLA students before their lease expired. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin)
Air quality in Westwood is unhealthy because of wildfires east of Los Angeles. The Bobcat fire, which began Sunday in the Angeles National Forest, has impacted air quality throughout Southern California. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles residents are encouraged to stay indoors because of unhealthy air quality. The Bobcat fire is 6% contained and has burned nearly 30,000 acres as of Saturday morning. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
The North Westwood Neighborhood Council is the official neighborhood council representing Westwood Village and UCLA to the Los Angeles City Council. Council meetings are open to the public and held monthly. Read more...
Westwood Village associations and a Los Angeles city official are fighting vacancies in the Village by collaborating to potentially amend its business regulations. A survey distributed in part by the Westwood Village Improvement Association found that of the 2,519 respondents, most of whom were from Westwood, around 60% supported some degree of changes to the Westwood Village Specific Plan, a document that regulates the entrance of new businesses into Westwood Village. Read more...
Photo: Local neighborhood councils distributed a survey that found the majority of respondents support changing city rules to combat the high commercial vacancy rate in Westwood. (Daily Bruin file photo)
