Rina Palta

Homeless people living in vehicles are no longer allowed to park near schools, day care centers and parks. Restrictions also prohibit residential street parking between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.

A measure to raise sales taxes by 1/4 cent will be on the March 7 ballot. Local officials are selling it as a way to tackle homelessness and save money long-term.

With hundreds of families out on the streets, non profits and county homeless advocates are looking for new ways to provide shelter. LA County may rent out full motels to get children and their parents off the streets. In Orange County, a new home opened for homeless families who have chronic medical needs.

Officials gathered information from all of the school districts in LA County. They found a 17 percent jump from last year. Among the causes: the high cost of housing in the region.

This week, Southern California counties will canvas their communities to take an annual count of the region's homeless population. Some are using thermal imaging and more detailed questionnaires to better count and understand who's living on the streets.

Numbers indicate California's poorest are finally benefitting from a rising economy, but local food banks and other social services say they're as busy as ever.

Operators of winter shelters say numbers are down this year, and they think location might be the problem. They say NIMBY-ism has kept them from renting space in centralized parts of LA County.

County supervisors voted to put a 1/4 cent sales tax hike on the March ballot. It would generate more than $300 million. But will voters give it the green light?

L.A. County, looking for millions of dollars to fund its plan to eradicate homelessness, will likely turn to voters for a way to raise the cash.

Voters in the city of L.A. approved a bond measure that will invest $1.2 billion to build new housing for the city's homeless. That's a first step, officials say.

The number of defendants declared "incompetent to stand trial" due to mental illness on pace to hit 4500 this year. That's up from about 3500 last year.

L.A. County is looking to beef up its apparatus for countering violent extremism by creating a unit to identify radicals behind bars.