Marveon Mabon, a fourth-generation resident of the Imperial Courts public housing development in Watts, leads a backpack distribution event for children at the Watts Empowerment Center on Aug. 12.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is to assume management oversight for the project to complete unit 2 at the Watts Bar nuclear power plant from contractor Bechtel. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is ...

Even before the shootings last month that drew the attention of politicians and police, gang interventionists and longtime residents, the Imperial Courts public housing project in Watts had seen a lot ...

A simple fact -- the Watts Towers were the creation of Italian architect Simon Rodia, built over the course of three decades and finished 10 years before the Watts riots -- belongs somewhere in Roger ...

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, joined by city officials and residents, gathered Thursday at Markham Middle School in Watts to celebrate the city receiving a $35M cap-and-trade grant from the state’s ...

FBI agents and local law enforcement officers have arrested 20 people who they say were connected to a street gang in the Watts area. Those arrested Wednesday are suspected members of or associated ...

As a third-grader at Grape Street Elementary School in Watts, Marveon Mabon introduced himself thus: I'm going to be president of the United States. He was a Black boy growing up poor in Imperial ...