This post was updated June 25 at 3:47 p.m.
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Gibson Nyambura, a representative of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, said the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners will decide at a meeting in August whether jurisdiction of the business district in Westwood Village will fall under the Westwood Neighborhood Council or the new North Westwood Neighborhood Council, or be shared between the two councils.

University police are searching for a man who allegedly assaulted and attempted to rob a UCLA student Thursday.
The student was near the corner of Strathmore Drive and Gayley Avenue at about 11:25 p.m.

Brittany Speer and her family visited Las Vegas in October expecting to attend a country music concert. Instead, they found themselves in the midst of an unrelenting hail of gunfire.

Students can now use an improved mobile application when requesting rides from the campus van service that picks them up in the evening.
UCLA Transportation launched Safe Ride, an app that allows students to arrange rides with the Community Service Officers’ Evening Van Service, on Monday.

The Westwood Village Improvement Association is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. Property and business owners created the association in 2011 to provide the Village with functions the city of Los Angeles could not provide.

The city of Los Angeles may soon pay homeless individuals to collect garbage.
The Los Angeles City Council Public Works and Gang Reduction committee approved a motion earlier in November to hire homeless individuals to collect garbage.