Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is taking a hard line on the city’s homelessness, laying out a “get help or get out” ...

Remember the $640 toilet seat covers, $435 hammers, and $7,600 coffee makers — all billed to federal taxpayers in a 1980s ...

Los Angeles County will create a plan to take over payments to homeless service providers and embed county workers into the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to help the struggling joint city of ...

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.

Karen Bass likes to tout LA’s progress in reducing homelessness. Last July, for example, she claimed that the city’s annual homeless count had declined for two years in a row. She called that “lasting ...

When someone brandishes a weapon on a Metro train or bus, sworn officers should respond. But what if a homeless person is riding without paying and taking up several seats? Or a mentally ill ...