With all the changes happening in neighborhoods around Los Angeles, you may be wondering what you can do to improve your community and hold on to its local flavor. Check out these five easy ways to build...

The American Red Cross is more than just blood drives. On a recent Saturday, volunteers for the group installed hundreds of smoke alarms in local homes as part of the sixth annual “Sound the Alarm”...

Michelle Morales, 22, struggles with depression but feels as if her mother is more worried about her physical health than emotional health. “My mom would kind of mock me and say, ‘Oh, don’t talk...

Huntington Park residents overwhelmingly voted to support bringing a new Costco to their city. Nearly 1,900 voted “yes” and 304 voted “no” on the advisory measure this month, which asked if they...

A wild, abstract sunset -- made of bold embroidered lines on canvas. Strips of cardboard boxes assembled into a pattern, like buildings on a map. Black and white drawings of a woman slowly standing up...

Cal State LA’s new proposal to raise admissions standards isn’t due to the Cal State University system chancellor yet, but it’s apparently already discouraging some community college students who...

The Eagle Rock recreation center is a place where children from a nearby school go for gym class. It’s the spot where kids whose families have lived for generations in the neighborhood play alongside...

On a recent Friday night, people attending the night market in La Puente walked past sweet smells of crepes, popcorn, tortas and other treats while children waved bubble wands and ran around, their faces...

More than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a 4-year-old Eagle Rock resident can’t play in her neighborhood park because it isn’t ADA compliant. “We can’t push...

When Antonia Kania opened her ice cream shop last Fall in South Central Los Angeles, where she grew up, it was childhood dream come true. That dream was in peril just months later, when a Baskin-Robbins...

Just as Boyle Heights residents in recent decades have fought new businesses and developers moving onto their turf, they once battled new freeways being built right through the neighborhood. Filmmaker...