The three candidates took aim at each other's plans to address the intractable homeless problem in the city and the ...

Homelessness, especially among the mentally ill, has become a problem that is swallowing the city. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Jim McDonnell told The California Post that about ...

*A day after a flood of news trucks, police, sanitation department workers, and a slew of neighbors descended on the sidewalk sewer manhole in South L.A., I went to the location. The sanitation work ...

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A rogue mini-town is rising inside Los Angeles’ billion-dollar homelessness crisis, where the homeless are building tiny homes with TVs and air conditioning, and selling them on the street for as ...

Obama calling out LA’s homeless problem is a ‘thinly veiled swipe’ at Newsom, Bass, former Trump official says Former Trump 2024 deputy communications director Caroline Sunshine discusses former ...

Borrowing from novelist James Hilton, who coined the word “Shangri-La” to describe a Tibetan utopia in a 1933 novel, Franklin Roosevelt gave that name to the peaceful retreat we know as Camp David.

The Trump administration plans to slash nearly $400 million in federal funding for homeless programs while taking aim at Los Angeles’ under-fire homeless-services agency for its “abysmal record.” The ...