How much retail shopping contributed to January’s surge is hard to know. Critics charge the county's policy has been fatally flawed.
Joe Biden's biggest challenge lies at the U.S.-Mexico border, where an estimated 67,000 migrants are stranded.
County sources say the Board of Supervisors is trying to balance the health crisis with economic considerations.
An activist state senator and a City Hall boss are fighting for a supervisor's chair. It's a clash of styles and beliefs.
Everything from chronic physician shortages to the county’s political culture seemed aligned against a rapid response to the virus.
L.A. Trade-Tech’s student body resembles the blue-collar bloc that helped elect Obama.
Drug overdoses are the single greatest factor contributing to Los Angeles’ rising rate of homeless mortality, a report claims.
A 2017 audit found that in Los Angeles, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., there were only nine public toilets available for Skid Row's estimated 1,777...
Skid Row porta-potties have a reputation as magnets for drug-dealing and prostitution. Homeless residents say they are afraid of being robbed in them, or worse.
Los Angeles' district attorney has had the violent deaths of Kisha Michael and Marquintan Sandlin under review for 477 days and counting.
Co-published by The American Prospect New proposed restrictions mean that immigrants are more liable to be turned away at points of entry, or have their applications to...