Marathon Council Meeting Tackles Renter Protections and 1001 Roxbury

In a marathon seven-hour meeting on April 12, the Beverly Hills City Council took up multiple hot-button topics, including the city's eviction and rent increase moratoria and the historic status of a mansion on North Roxbury Drive.

Beverly Hills City Council candidates Commissioner Sharona Nazarian and Councilmember Robert Wunderlich have received the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP).

The Concours d'Elegance returns this year on June 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in a new format that includes elements from the Tour and Concours, with select cars positioned on Rodeo Drive for the public to view in addition to a VIP/sponsor driving

The Beverly Hills City Council approved nearly half a million dollars to establish the Real Time Watch Center, a new hub to coordinate the city's many surveillance tools.

The BA.2 subvariant is now believed to be the dominant COVID-19 strain circulating in Los Angeles County, which has seen an uptick in daily infection numbers, though hospitalization figures remain low and the death rate keeps declining, the Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said on

Cedars-Sinai announced a $10 million gift to establish the Bernard and Maxine Platzer Lynn Family Memory and Healthy Aging Program in the Department of Neurology on March 25.

On April 6, Mayor Lili Bosse joined other leaders across the country in the 11th Annual Wyland National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation, asking residents to reduce their water consumption.

The Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) Board of Education unanimously agreed to take a more lenient stance on COVID-19 testing, despite an uptick reported at its April 5 meeting.

It was standing room only for the April 5 ceremony installing Lili Bosse as the new mayor of Beverly Hills and Julian Gold, M.D. as vice mayor.

On April 7, the Holocaust Museum LA announced that the S. Mark Taper Foundation awarded the museum $1.5 million to support its expansion, which will double its existing footprint in Pan Pacific Park.