The long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza mall has been a problem in the South Bay for years, according to city authorities, residents and business owners near the sprawling property. Instead of attracting ...

Once known as the Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center, city officials say the famously dead mall has become a magnet for illegal dumping, graffiti, homeless encampments, and hazardous conditions including ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

A rubbish fire erupted Wednesday in the vacant Hawthorne Plaza shopping center, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the air. The fire was reported about 9:35 a.m. at the former mall in the 12100 ...

Hawthorne city officials are fed up with the owners of long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza and have obtained a permanent court injunction requiring them to either redevelop or demolish it by August 2026. The ...

A woman died and five other people were hospitalized after a shooting at a strip mall in Hawthorne early Sunday morning. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the shooting was ...

Hawthorne city leaders have obtained a court order against the owners of the long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center, which calls for movement on the mall's redevelopment or demolition within one ...