Two of the City’s many toy drives delivered joy for Christmas.

Many City departments sponsored toy drives this year. 2020 was a hard holiday season for everyone due to the coronavirus, but City departments kept coming through...

Park Ranger resident horse retires after 6 years of service.

Rec and Parks announced that Park Ranger resident horse Scout retired after 6 years of City service. Scout is a 19 year old Palomino Quarter Horse and has been with the Park Ranger Division since 2014...

The Emergency Operations Center is the HQ for battling the City’s critical emergencies like...

Beginning with a bond issue in 2002, the City changed the way it manages its emergencies. And 19 years later, that strategic move is paying dividends...

Dressed to the Nines (One One)

On Oct. 31, the men and women of the LAPD Communications/Valley Emergency Call Center had their annual Halloween fun by dressing up for the holiday...

Sr. PSR I Lisa Smock retires after 30 years of City service.

Congratulations to Sr. PSR I Lisa Smock, LAPD/Communications, Club Member who retired Oct. 22. Lisa worked for the City for more than 30 years...

Remembering Ed Harding, longtime City manager and Retiree leader.

Ed was born in 1921 in Tucson, Ariz., and moved to Los Angeles when he was a child. He began his City career in 1946 as a Clerk in the Repair Dept. of what was then Street Maintenance...

Association of Airport Employees announces 2020 scholarship honorees.

On Sept. 20, the Association of Airport Employees (AAE) at Los Angeles World Airports awarded 20 scholarships to dependents of Airports employees for their outstanding academic achievements...

LAX’s annual Aviation Career Day goes virtual.

On Oct. 28, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) virtually welcomed more than 500 high school students to LAX Aviation Career Day...

Scenes From a Pandemic: Part 9

Alive! continues its documentation of City employees as they take a multitude of measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic...

Protecting the Vote

Thanks go to everyone at the LAPD who on Nov. 3 protected the most cherished right of all Americans, the right to vote...