A day after federal officers and National Guard troops descended on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, immigrant residents of the ...

U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers made a brief but mighty show of force Monday at a Los Angeles park in a neighborhood dubbed the “Ellis Island of the West Coast" for its large ...

The four-acre park, closed in April 2024, has been improved with a $10.5 million remodel to its sports courts, playground and ...

Before it was public parkland, today’s MacArthur Park wasn’t a popular place. In the early days of L.A., in the 1800s, it was a marshy wetland that was dismissed as an undesirable swamp, according to ...

Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, whose district encompasses MacArthur Park, said on X that armed troops were "terrorizing street vendors, elders, and even children at summer camp." ...

After four months, MacArthur Park’s southern section is reopening to the public. The park closed in October for $1.5 million in renovations and maintenance that had been postponed due to the ...

MacArthur Park has changed, says L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. The troubled public square in Westlake has seen gang shootings, rampant drug use, discarded syringes, homelessness, people experiencing ...

MacArthur Park is scheduled to close tonight for maintenance, which means anyone living in the park must be gone by 10:30 p.m. As the clock ticks down, the office of L.A. City Councilmember Gil ...

Year-to-date property crime is up in LAPD’s Rampart Division, a 5.5-square-mile area including the communities of MacArthur Park, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Angelino Heights and Pico-Union.

Meanwhile, residents in the MacArthur Park area, many of whom are poorer immigrants from Mexico and Central America, try to coexist with MacArthur Park’s drug scene, but it’s not easy. “I think it’s ...