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Businesses struggle while Convention Center expansion closes off Pico Boulevard | LA Local Businesses in the neighborhood say their customers are not returning due to the construction along Pico Boulevard.

Los Angeles promises the $2.6 billion Convention Center expansion will be a job generator and bring in tax funds over the next 30 years. But businesses in the neighborhood say their customers are not coming back. @thelalocalorg.bsky.social @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social

LA wants to fence MacArthur Park. Locals don't think it will fix anything. | LA Local A fence around MacArthur Park could make it easier to maintain, officials say. Some locals are on the fence about the whole plan.

Our article looks at the state of MacArthur Park and how people feel about a plan to install a fence around the open space. @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

This volunteer hands out Narcan at MacArthur Park #localnews YouTube video by The LA Local

For more than five years, Gurpreet Singh, 42, has looked out for the MacArthur Park community-responding to mental health crises and overdoses by administering Narcan or calling 911.

This interview is from @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social and Hanna Kang @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

Hearing from employees at LAUSD headquarters. Board members and their staff are also not able to enter their offices.

There are emergency meetings scheduled this morning to figure out how to proceed with committees scheduled to meet later in the day

Older, white Angelenos are joining Latino volunteers to monitor ICE raids | LA Local The rapid response group, Unión del Barrio, has seen a huge spike of new volunteers after two high-profile killings in Minnesota.

“We have senior citizen retirees showing up saying, ‘I’m an old white woman — how can I help?’ We have students from community colleges and universities."
Story @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

After ICE detention, couple plans new life in Guatemala Longtime LA resident Oscar Polanco was newly married and working to get legal status when he was detained and taken to Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

Everything changed in October at Oscar’s green card adjustment appointment— a routine interview with immigration officials to determine whether he could become a lawful permanent resident. Reporting @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

FBI Director Kash Patel decided to fly to Italy and make a fool of himself in front of Team USA.

Somebody needs to tell this guy that FBI doesn’t stand for Frat Bro Initiation.

Here’s the full scene work - “Danza Macabre” by Israel Campos.

Pepe the parrot of Hermon | LA Local How a colorful parrot captured the hearts of a northeast Los Angeles neighborhood.

Pepe the parrot of Hermon

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El Mencho was the last of the old guard—the final mass-trafficking titan standing alongside El Chapo and El Mayo—now fallen, marking the end of an era in Mexican organized crime.

This is a developing story.

The latest: lataco.com/mexico-viole...

By @theglutster.bsky.social

How a Pico Boulevard warehouse became home to a fleet of luxury cars | LA Local A former Pico Union party supply warehouse is home to a growing fleet of classic cars. How one man turned a weekend gig into a car rental agency.

A former Pico Union party supply warehouse is now home to a growing number of luxury classic cars. How one man turned a weekend side gig into a thriving car rental agency. By @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social for @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

Bernie Sanders campaigns for billionaire tax Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off the campaign for a California billionaire tax with an event Wednesday in Koreatown.

The proposed measure would impose a one-time tax of up to 5% on individuals and trusts with a net worth above $1 billion. Backers, including @sanders.senate.gov, estimate about 200 California residents would be affected. By @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

LA wants to fence MacArthur Park. Locals don't think it will fix anything. | LA Local A fence around MacArthur Park could make it easier to maintain, officials say. Some locals are on the fence about the whole plan.

The proposal to fence MacArthur Park could make the space easier to maintain, according to city officials. But residents worry this would drastically change the fabric of the neighborhood. From @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social and Hanna Kang for @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

Self-storage developer La Tierra Consulting uses Papa Cristo’s logo in renderings presented to the Neighborhood Council, but has not actually asked Chrys Chrys if he wants to reopen his displaced family business. Neighbors say they want housing. Sigh... thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

Papa Cristo’s former home could be replaced by storage facility | LA Local Greek marketplace Papa Cristo’s former home in Pico Union could be demolished to make way for a storage facility.

A Redondo Beach developer plans to turn Papa Cristo’s longtime home in Pico Union into a storage facility — but says that he still wants to honor the restaurant’s more than 70 year legacy in some way. @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

DAILY MEMO: ICE Is Still Active in Southern California
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Bad Bunny Super Bowl Casita: Meet the South LA Designers Meet Federico Laboreau and Maximiliano Pizzi, the Argentine owners of South LA’s Fuegos who went from serving empanadas to designing the interior of Bad Bunny’s iconic Super Bowl halftime casita.

From Buenos Aires to the Super Bowl stage, Argentine designers Federico Laboreau and Maximiliano Pizzi helped bring Bad Bunny’s iconic casita to life — and this is how they did it. Story from @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social for @thelalocalorg.bsky.social

What we know about those detained during Wednesday’s ICE raids Neighbors and family members shared details as at least six people were taken from Boyle Heights and East LA in a surge of immigration enforcement.

What we know about the people taken during Wednesday’s ICE raids on the Eastside

Nonprofit to close South LA ‘safe sleep’ site this week, citing insufficient funding | LA Local The Lincoln Safe Sleep Village on South Central Avenue was one of only a handful of similar government-sanctioned tent encampments operating around the state.

Shameful: Curren Price's office claims to know nothing of Urban Alchemy plan to shut down due to LAHSA underpayment, the same week Price is sent to trial on corruption charges. Wonder how many staffers no longer live in CA, like one quoted in this story? thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

Are you a business in LA that will be participating in tomorrow's #NationalStrike #GeneralStrike? We'd like to hear from you!

LA TACO ICE TRACKER 01/28/2026 10:45 am NATIONAL CITY: ICE / WALMART / 1200 HIGHLAND AVE / UNSURE OF TIME / ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING/ COSTAMESA: ICE / HARBOR & WILSON / 6:20AM / 1 KIDNAPPING / SANTA BARBARA: ICE / HUTASH & VOLUNTARIO / 6:45AM / SIGHTING / PISMO BEACH: ICE / CAFE / 1053 PRICE ST / 8:00AM / UNSURE IF ANYONE WAS TAKEN / JURUPA VALLEY: ICE/MARLATT & 60™ / 8:00AM / UNSURE IF ANYONE WAS TAKEN/ JURUPA VALLEY: ICE/DODD &54#*/ 8:20AM / SIGHTING / LOS ANGELES: ICE / COURT & WELCOME / 7:25AM / ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING/ SAN BERNARDINO: ICE/COURT /ARROW &3®/ 9:10AM / SCOUTING / LOS ANGELES: CBP / OLYMPIC & VANCOUVER/ 9:08AM / SIGHTING / ENCINITAS: ICE / MANCHESTER, UNDER HWY 5 W BRIDGE / 9:30AM / 1 KIDNAPPING / LOS ANGELES: CBP / CHINATOWN / MAIN & LEROY / 9:30AM / 1 KIDNAPPING / LOS ANGELES: CBP / BOYLE HEIGHTS/ MOTT & 2ND / 9:45AM / 1 KIDNAPPING/ LOS ANGELES: CBP / RAMONA GARDENS / 2830 LANCASTER AVE / 10:20AM / AT LEAST 1 KIDNAPPING/ By Izzy Ramirez

ICE Tracker today 1/28

You just stumbled into the hottest secret concert in Los Angeles — in a mall How viral musician Nathaniel Young packed a Koreatown mall for an impromptu, solo show.

The hottest concert in Koreatown this past weekend may have been an impromptu, after-hours, one-man show at a closed shopping mall.

The crowds at the Koreatown Plaza didn’t gather for Korean eats at H Mart. They came to catch viral saxophonist Nathanial Young. #Koreatown

Black and orange text that reads “5 Easy Ways You Can Help Right Now”

Cartoon of a man standing at a fruit car surrounded by masked ICE agents.

Cartoon of masked agents holding a person down while phones record.

Two men standing in front of a car wash.

Feeling helpless? Here’s how YOU can help take a stand against ICE!

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By @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

Trump’s deportation machine is out of control.

People are being targeted based on the color of their skin, citizens are being killed in the street, and this administration is dodging accountability.

We warned this would happen when Trump targeted LA last year. It's time to get ICE out NOW.

Federal agents descended on a quiet Willowbrook block shortly after 7 a.m., startling residents in the unincorporated Los Angeles community.

DAILY MEMO: ICE and Border Patrol Continue Shooting and Assaulting Southern California Immigrants, Citizens, Women, and Minors

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Grand Central Market update: Roast to Go has passed over to legacy businesses heaven and the La Sandunga Oaxacan stall is coming soon.