Residents and business owners in East Los Angeles, El Sereno, Alhambra, Eagle Rock, Lincoln Heights, La Puente, South Gate, Central Alameda and Inglewood recently raised a number of public issues they...

Residents and business owners in La Puente, who will be voting for three new council members in November, shared several priorities they hope to see the candidates address. Those priorities include...

Could some Cal State LA's funds invested in campus police be used instead to offset student fees or support programs such as ethnic studies? This was one of the questions raised at a Scholar Strike...

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Lotanna Onyejekwe was no stranger to social distancing. You see, Onyejekwe has social anxiety disorder. It was easier to be alone than face people. When she...

Eagle Rock high school students are starting to have a reputation for getting things done. In recent months, they not only helped secure what is effectively a $150,000 grant for the student body, but...

I’ve never felt as carefree as I did when I was a kid. I loved getting the latest video games, watching Saturday morning cartoons with my sister, collecting Pokemon cards and even just finishing my...

Eastsiders knew Bobby Lee Verdugo as a civil rights activist. His loved ones remember him as a great father, the family comedian and “Santa Claus.” Verdugo died on May 1 at age 69, surrounded...

When I was 9 years old, my mom dropped a bombshell on me. She told me that our family would be moving from Los Angeles County to Bakersfield. I had grown up with nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles...

From the day Gabriel Posadas was born almost two years ago, his mother, Sabrina Renteria, worried about him. Among other issues, he had been born with dislocations of the knees and was diagnosed with...

Alhambra resident Laura Linares was barely making ends meet before the pandemic. Now that she has been laid off from her job as an input coordinator, the situation is dire. She told her apartment...

Since the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent school closures, it seems almost everyone in the Olvera-Mash family is taking on new roles. Grandmother Maria Olvera is now the primary caregiver during...

When a fire in Brentwood led her university to close this fall, Jasmin Chavez was bummed but she took solace in knowing she’d soon be back on the university’s idyllic campus in the Santa Monica Mountains. Chavez,...