The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power suspended utility bills in January for areas impacted by the Palisades fire.

What is temporary is the ability of the Board to adjust rates by that much again. So here's the nerdy version of that. Currently, the LADWP base rate for electricity is 13-cents per kilowatt hour ...

The reason: The LADWP approved a budget in June that included a rate increase to help fund the maintenance of the utility‘s infrastructure, including replacing poles, cross arms, transformers ...

LADWP officials had hoped by Nov. 1 to have approved rate hikes of 15.3% for water and 16.8% for power spread out over the next three years to pay for the additional debt. The rate hike would only ...

When the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power adopted its “time-of-use” electricity rates in 2008 to encourage less power consumption during peak hours, George W. Bush was still president ...

The council voted 12-2 last week in support of the LADWP board’s decision to increase the rates over the next five years. Because the decision was not unanimous — Councilmen Mitch Englander ...

The rate increases have been billed as a way to raise money to replace or fix LADWP's aging system of water pipes. Mayor Eric Garcetti backed the plan this week, saying that while "no one likes to ...

Even though the mayor and city council will decide on the rate hike, DWP commissioners say ... message to the public," Jill Banks Barad, an LADWP commissioner, said. The hikes for Larchmont ...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power rolled out its proposal for higher rates Wednesday, increases that would add about $24 to the typical customer's monthly bill by 2020. The new rates ...

If you are a Los Angeles County resident who gets electricity through the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power or Southern California Edison, you have probably been shocked by a recent ...