The Latest Breaking News from Karen Bass

Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.

Once again, the news from the annual tally of the Los Angeles County homeless population is grim. Based on the three-night point-in-time count conducted in January, the number of homeless people in Los Angeles rose by 10% to 46,260 this year from 41,980 in 2022. The overall number in Los…

Focusing on ways to serve immigrants better and give them more of a voice on a host of economic and social issues, local legislators, academics and nonprofit leaders gathered last week at the fourth L.A. immigration summit.

Cynthia Ruiz, the first Native American ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, got some bad news from City Hall recently.

Busload of 41 people, including 11 children who were with families, was welcomed by collective of faith and immigrants’ rights groups

A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city has arrived in downtown Los Angeles for the second time in less than three weeks

Another bus carrying dozens of migrants from Texas arrived at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of the governor and taxpayers of the Lone Star State.

The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last year

Annual government count shows 9% increase, sharper than last year’s 4%, in country’s most populous county

Homelessness continued to rise dramatically, increasing by 9% in Los Angeles County and 10% in the city of Los Angeles last year, in a stark illustration of the challenges faced by officials trying to reduce the number of people living on the streets.

A $60 million state grant recently awarded to L.A. County's Department of Health Services will jump-start a plan to provide interim housing and services for more than half of Skid Row's homeless population over the next three years.