Doug Smith

Issues such as racial injustice and police brutality, protested at the Chicano Moratorium in 1970, remain painfully relevant today, marchers said.

A series of marches, forums and screenings are being held throughout Los Angeles on Saturday to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium.

Clancy Imislund, longtime director of L.A.'s Midnight Mission, gave talks at AA meetings from South Dakota to Iceland and sponsored thousands.

Francisco Aguilar, a 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department, disappeared from his condo in Rosarito, according to family members.

Some just got out of prison; others came off the streets. They are practically unemployable. But thanks to COVID-19, an L.A. nonprofit is able to put them to work at hotels taken over to house the homeless during the pandemic.

Keeping track of the number of people who are homeless in Los Angeles is an exercise in uncertainty. Not only do the numbers change from year to year, presumably reflecting real shifts in the homeless population, but, once published, they can still change months or years later — based on changes in how the numbers are calculated.

Judge orders COVID-19 testing at Bakersfield immigration detention center where a spreading outbreak was met with ‘deliberate indifference’ for weeks.

The new numbers brought the county’s totals to 220,762 positive cases of COVID-19 and 5,245 deaths. Saturday’s death total was the lowest of any day this week.

A program that has moved thousands of vulnerable homeless people into hotel and motel rooms to protect them from the coronavirus is discriminating against some of the most needy and vulnerable living on the streets

One homeless man’s four-month wait for an apartment, while it lay vacant, reflects a persistent failing of L.A.'s countywide system to get homeless people into housing — an especially critical need during the coronavirus pandemic.