Leslie Berestein Rojas

While sidewalk vending was legalized four years ago, it remains banned in certain busy and lucrative areas, including Hollywood Boulevard. Street vendors want to force the city to lift these bans.

Since Jan. 2016, at least 30 stone fabricators in the L.A. area have been diagnosed with an accelerated form of silicosis, an incurable, and deadly, dust-related illness.

Jhonaikel Vielma Belandria is now staying with relatives in Moreno Valley. The journey was long, and it's not over.

In the wake of the City Council tape scandal, Indigenous leaders are pushing for better representation and recognition.

For decades, Black and Latino community leaders and groups have worked hard to organize both communities around shared goals and needs. Bad actors in City Hall don’t change that, they say.

Nury Martinez, who resigned today as City Council president, is heard making a crack about “little short dark people” who she later refers to as ugly.

An appellate court has sent the case back to the lower court judge who initially ruled DACA is illegal.

The Ridna Shkola of Los Angeles teaches Ukrainian culture and language to the children of L.A.’s Ukrainian diaspora. Now it’s seeing lots of new students who fled Russia’s invasion.

Naasón Joaquín García, leader of the Mexico-based La Luz Del Mundo megachurch, is in prison after pleading guilty to fewer sexual abuse charges than he was to stand trial for; the suit is a chance for victims to “really achieve justice,” their lawyer says.

Gov. Newsom has until the end of the month to sign a bill that would update the state’s retail food code, making it easier for street vendors to obtain health permits with small carts.

SB 972 seeks to make the California Retail Food Code friendlier to street food vendors, and ease obstacles to obtaining health permits for pushcart vendors.

The Anaheim City Council voted Tuesday night to formally designate a stretch of Brookhurst Street as “Little Arabia,” after years of lobbying from the community.