Drugs, crime and homelessness plague MacArthur Park. Can a multimillion-dollar fence rescue it?

Los Angeles is moving head with a plan to build a $2.3 million fence around MacArthur Park. Will it help ease homelessness ...
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City moves to address ‘safety issues’ at MacArthur Park by installing a permanent fence

Subscribe to LA Public Press to get stories like this in your inbox every week. Community advocates say the fence could ...
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Clearing of MacArthur Park homeless won't repeat Echo Park chaos, councilmember says

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In 10 days, the roughly 45 remaining unhoused residents of MacArthur Park will no longer be allowed to live there as the south side of the park will be closed for 10 weeks. The ...
Yahoo

Man’s body pulled from lake at MacArthur Park

A death investigation is underway after a man’s body was removed from the lake at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles Monday morning. The Los Angeles police and fire department responded to the park near ...
New York Post

Federal agents stormed LA’s MacArthur Park to root out MS-13 gangbangers — before Mayor Karen Bass confronted them: sources

Immigration agents who flooded a Los Angeles park on Monday said they were there as a “show of force” to protect residents from MS-13 gangbangers and open air drug markets — before they were furiously ...
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MacArthur Park Lakeside section reopens after months of closure for $1.5 million renovation

WESTLAKE, LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A section of MacArthur Park reopened to the public Tuesday, Feb. 22, after being closed for more than four months for a $1.5 million improvement project with landscape ...
LAist

Immigration enforcement agents descend on MacArthur Park, causing uproar

A convoy of armored vehicles and white vans pulled up to MacArthur Park Monday morning before uniformed immigration enforcement agents formed a skirmish line and walked through the park around 11 a.m.