Leslie Berestein Rojas

Community advocates and merchants along the Brookhurst Street strip known as Little Arabia have long lobbied the city for an official designation. Now, a motion to designate the neighborhood as a “little” is on Tuesday’s agenda.

Advocates say most Afghan families who arrived in Southern California have settled into permanent housing and jobs, although some are still being housed in hotels, and their long-term immigration status remains in limbo.

It’s been more than a month since the Supreme Court said the Biden administration may end a Trump-era program that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as their cases go through U.S. immigration court. If and when it ends, many are expected to come to the L.A. area.

A proposal for a Santa Ana charter amendment that would let non-citizens vote in the city’s elections won’t be on the November ballot, but it’s part of a trend that’s drawn its share of legal challenges.

Last year, a federal judge in Texas said DACA was unlawful. As the Biden administration appeals, some California DACA recipients who joined the lawsuit will be at the hearing, helping defend the lives they’ve built in the U.S.

LA Plaza De Cultura y Artes showcases the everyday culinary art of 10 local Mexican grandmothers in “Abuelita’s Kitchen.”

Cheech’s Chicano art addiction led to this Riverside museum, which Marin explained is a natural fit for the Inland Empire.

For many of the 70,000-plus Afghans who arrived in the U.S. last year on humanitarian parole, life here remains filled with uncertainty.

The Biden administration’s “Dedicated Docket” plan promised not to compromise fairness, but a UCLA report found otherwise.

Before Russia’s invasion, the center was best known as a space for Ukrainian cultural events and as a venue to rent for weddings and quinceañeras. It’s still that — but now it’s a lot more than that, too.

The judge's directive follows a report by court-appointed monitors saying the Sheriff's Department is not doing enough to address the problem.

A street cleanup and fencing on a stretch that is popular with street vendors has left some worried about the vendors’ ability to return to the area.