Lauren Lyster

Secretary of U.S. Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough is visiting several VA facilities in Riverside, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties this week. He addressed the issue of homelessness among U.S. vete…

Neighbors say they are fed up and are seeking action against a Koreatown home enveloped with debris and trash that’s been piling up for years. Lauren Lyster reports for the KTLA 5 News at 6 o…

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva addressed homelessness on Skid Row during a meeting with business leaders Tuesday. The Downtown Industrial Business Board invited the sheriff to speak bec…

An East Hollywood tent village, sanctioned and funded by the city as part of an eight-month pilot program to provide space for about 70 tents to be pitched in a secure lot, is coming to a close thi…

A petition has been approved urging the Los Angeles City Council to repeal its proof of COVID-19 vaccination requirement. The petition comes as COVID-19 is the leading cause of death across L.A. Co…

With cases of the omicron variant falling, more states are ending indoor mask mandates. Here in California, Tuesday will mark the end of the state’s mask requirement in most public places. Wh…

You can expect inflation to be an uninvited guest at your Super Bowl party this year. The price of food, especially meat products, have jumped by double digits as inflation reaches a 40-year high. …

Seven months after a $5 million program was launched to clean up Venice Beach’s sprawling homeless encampment, many have been placed in permanent or interim housing, but the work remains ongo…

Until a little over a year ago, 45-year-old Will Sens called a plot of grass at Echo Park Lake home. However, a cleanup effort displaced more than 100 tents and their residents from the park in Mar…

A regular gallon of gas is now costing an average of $6.06 for Los Angeles-area drivers, but Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gas rebate proposal is expected to bring some relief, if approved. However, th…

A Sacramento legislator is working to pass a bill to make it easier to clear homeless encampments along rivers and what is known as special parklands. Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) sa…

Patricia Roque and her family were victims of an alleged hate crime in May. She says the unprovoked attack started when a motorist bumped their car in a North Hollywood drive-thru and started makin…

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed motions to strengthen gun regulations just weeks after a mass shooting in Monterey Park left 11 people dead. The motions, w…

Dozens of homeless veterans will have a new place to lay their heads as the Veterans Administration has opened two new buildings containing 120 housing units on its West Los Angeles campus. The str…

Lauren Lyster highlights the best of Southern California with the help of KTLA viewers in Lauren’s Lyst. Making the Lyst for Mother’s Day: the Sunset Beach Art Festival in Orange County…

The horrors of war are no longer limited to grainy newsreel footage and archival photos. Today, violence plays out in real-time on social media with video and images that can spread rapidly and traumatize millions in just a matter of hours. As the Israel-Hamas war rages on, at least two Jewish schools in Los Angeles […]

Boxer Chris Van Heerden, boyfriend of detained dancer and esthetician Ksenia Karelina, pleads for her release following her January arrest in Russia. Karelina holds dual U.S.-Russian citizenship and was arrested while visiting family in Yekaterinburg on treason charges related to an alleged $51 donation to a Ukrainian charity, according to colleagues. Friends have created a […]

It’s Make-A-Wish Wednesday!Wish recipient Tess Partida and her mom Lida joined us live to share details on how the Make-A-Wish Foundation helped bring joy to their family with a trip to Hawaii. For…

Surrogate moms from Texas to Florida thought they were carrying a baby for a Southern California couple struggling to have a second child due to infertility. Then, the women discovered they were al…

A Florida surrogate mother says she felt disregarded and essentially discarded after the child she carried for a California couple did not survive. “I think what hurt me the most was that I feel li…