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.

University police arrested two people Tuesday in connection with several Westwood burglaries.
Cierra Marie Bartholomew, 28, and Adrian Givens, 46, were arrested early Tuesday morning and charged with burglary, possession of stolen property, possession of burglary tools and being felons in possession of firearms and ammunition, according to a Thursday press release from the UCPD.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 11:05 a.m.
One person is in critical condition after being shot in Westwood on Saturday morning, according to the LAPD.

The hole left by the departure of Stan’s Donuts has a new filing: another family-owned donut shop.
Primo’s Donuts, a 64-year-old donut shop operated by three generations of the same family, will take over the Westwood Village vacancy previously occupied by Stan’s Donuts this fall, according to a press release from Bel Air Branding, who represents Primo’s Donuts.

Students and community organizers are looking to establish a community fridge in Westwood Village to combat food insecurity in Westwood during the pandemic.
Community fridges are public refrigerators filled with free fresh groceries, meals and produce open to anybody without limits or restrictions on how much one can take.

Since Gov. Gavin Newsom tightened stay-at-home restrictions that had been loosened in May, Westwood businesses have struggled to adjust to the new normal.
The re-tightening of restrictions came July 13 in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases after the state partially reopened in May.

Hundreds of protesters chanted in Westwood on Sunday in solidarity with protesters in Portland, Oregon.
The Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Chapter organized the protest, held at the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard, to show their opposition to federal police stationed in Portland.