City Councilmember Traci Park, a political newcomer, has emerged as a government official who feels the pain of those who ...

Los Angeles is rebuilding, but new crises are mounting and Mayor Karen Bass has been haunted by her absence when the fires ...

“The time to show empathy was right away," said Dermot Givens, a political consultant who is not working for either Park or Bass. "Park has filled that vacuum." Park, 49, a former municipal ...

Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park made her way through an auditorium filled with Pacific Palisades residents who had lost homes, schools and churches. The charity event in mid-January was ...