Multiple Los Angeles County libraries hosted free Naloxone clinics to fight the opioid epidemic on Wednesdays. County libraries in El Monte, East LA, Willowbrook, Lennox, Lancaster, Norwalk,...

A Christmas lighting in Herman. Happy meals and happy times in Lincoln Heights. A school festival in Boyle Heights. These are some of the happy memories residents of the Eastside and South L.A. recalled...

Having to throw away food after a night of few customers. Being attacked by passersbys.  Getting your business shut down because of a rule you misunderstood. Interviews with half a dozen street vendors...

The aroma of Mexican food wafting out of busy food trucks. Colorful parade floats and dresses. Aguas frescas served up in souvenir cups. The energy of music and traditional dancers. The flavors, richness...

A Boyle Heights council meeting this fall ended in a resignation. One Boyle Heights neighborhood council member alleged her colleagues of bullying and corruption. Another alleged unprofessional behavior...

When Natalie Vargas’ mother left her father in 2017, the two became homeless.  “We didn't have anywhere to go. We slept in our car or in a storage area behind my grandmother’s house,” Vargas,...

Campaign Manager Yuval Yossefy is so excited about a city of Los Angeles ballot measure to tax millionaires, billionaires, and corporations in order to fund affordable housing efforts. That’s why...

Declining enrollment over the past two decades. School policing issues. Funding and resource management. Learning losses due to the global pandemic. Children having to learn remotely. These are some...

In the 1990s, violence pervaded neighborhoods around East Los Angeles. The violent crime rate in 1990 in East Los Angeles, for instance, was more than double that for the region -- compared to just...

When Jorge Garcia attended El Sereno Middle School, he always wondered about the old wood-framed schoolhouse on the campus site but never heard much about it. More recently, when his kids started attending,...

 When Juan and Candy Villa purchased La Azteca Tortilleria in East Los Angeles in 2010, they had no idea how to make handmade tortillas or how to run a business. What they knew is that...

There has been another reason to visit Whittier Boulevard in recent weeks. On Saturday mornings, near the landmark Whittier Boulevard arch, a farmer’s market has brought fresh produce, music and community...