Local groups continued to protest against immigration raids happening across Southern California on Saturday as part of their ongoing summer project. Organizers say they plan to keep the protests and ...

The economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic is threatening the future of Olvera Street. Stay-at-home orders prevent people from gathering at the plaza.

Olvera Street, situated in the area where the city was born in 1781, is home to dozens of craft shops, restaurants and businesses. The new development site is just north of the 101 Freeway between ...

Walk around Olvera Street and you’ll notice it: A large stuffed donkey with a cart, draped in traditional colorful serapes, greeting you as you walk into the plaza.. Known as La Carreta, the ...

“We have Olvera Street, we have La Plaza, now the La Plaza Village. I think it’ll lead to a co-mingling, rather than to a division or keeping people from coming here and it’ll be more welcoming.

Olvera Street, the city's oldest suburb and home to many of the oldest buildings in Los Angeles, was named one of the American Planning Association's Great Places in America for 2015.

Special needs teacher Deja Nebula sets up an art installation displaying names and faces of people who have been detained, ...

Olvera Street has a complex history within Los Angeles. The street is among the most historic in the city and still counts the oldest home in LA — the Avila Adobe, built in 1818 — as one of ...

As a young man growing up in 1980s Los Angeles, Pedro Alamillo would often find himself on Olvera Street, a historic downtown enclave known as the “birthplace of Los Angeles.” Alamillo would ...

Walk around Olvera Street and you’ll notice it: A large stuffed donkey with a cart, draped in traditional colorful serapes, greeting you as you walk into the plaza.. Known as La Carreta, the ...

The Tellez family is a group of traditional Aztec dancers based in LA, and they perform in the plaza at Olvera Street every Sunday afternoon. An hour before each show, in a busy parking lot, they help ...