Leslie Berestein Rojas

You think it’s hot outside? Imagine being inside a steaming hot food truck, stove blazing, when the mercury hits triple digits. Here’s how some local food truck vendors survive days like these.

Standard homeowner policies will cover basic wind and rain damage, but not if it’s due to flooding or mudflows — unless a recent wildfire is to blame.

Standing water in empty pools, yards, planter pots, even the tiniest containers can become breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes. Now that Tropical Storm Hilary is past us, it’s time to go into mosquito-prevention mode.

Farmworker advocates in the Coachella Valley have been taking stock of Tropical Storm Hilary’s damage to fields, farmworker communities.

Afghan refugees who arrived in the U.S. as part of a massive airlift that began in August 2021 have been settling in, but many challenges remain.

The legendary pitcher's No. 34 won’t be worn by any future Dodgers. It’s a tribute to Valenzuela’s role in building the team’s heavily Latino fan base.

A sixth bus carrying asylum seekers from the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas arrived in L.A. Thursday. Immigrant advocates helping them say bus fare, airline miles, even toothbrushes are welcome.

A third bus carrying migrants arrived at Union Station from Brownsville on Thursday.

The Vernon plant had a staff the size of a village — more than 2,000 people, most of them immigrants, many of them longtime workers. Some had been there for decades. Starting over has proven tough.

A second busload of migrants sent from the border in Texas arrived in L.A. on Saturday. Local immigrant aid groups believe more arrivals are likely in the future — and are planning how to better assist them.

The migrants bused from Texas to Union Station include asylum seekers from Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti and China. Among them are more than a dozen children.

Recent attacks by people who professed white nationalist and neo-Nazi sympathies but are not white themselves have raised a question: Why are some people of color drawn to white supremacist ideology? The answer is complicated.