South Central Los Angeles is working to rebound from the pandemic years when there was a bump in crime and a depressed economy due to businesses closing or losing sales. Many people and businesses were...

Seventeen years ago, Esther Hernandez left her home country, Mexico, for a better life. Street vending in Glassell Park provided that better life but when her husband fell ill, the life they built together...

The crime rate in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood of South Los Angeles County more than doubled just since 2019. Its violent crime rate per 100,000 residents was 2,659 in 2021, up from 823 in 2019,...

Roger W. Temple Intermediate’s annual “Dinner and a Show” finally took place after a two-year break in Rosemead. The event, which is organized by middle school students, had been put off due to the...

More than 15 years ago, I worked out at the gym four days a week, two hours each day. Despite moving around in a wheelchair, my arms and upper body were so strong I could easily move myself in and out...

Unwanted land. A spiritual oasis. A development opportunity. A wildlife corridor known as the Emerald Necklace.  These are the various ways Poppy Peak, a hillside area in the northern park of Highland...