Health

Sunday is the last day to avoid health coverage tax penalties. People without health insurance coverage, as mandated by the federal government, could be hit with a heavy tax penalty, EGP News reports. Those cov... Read More...

The cleanup around the closed Exide plant in Vernon is going too slow, state regulators, community activists, and local elected officials said Tuesday during a hearing of the State Assembly Committee on Environ... Read More...

Four out of five Boyle Heights businesses facing charges for illegally disposing of toxic chemicals are clustered in a small industrial zone near homes and restaurants, including a jewelry maker that was convic... Read More...

For health insurance through Covered California that starts on January 1 2016, residents must sign up by Dec. 15, but thousands of people in Boyle Heights have yet to sign up. State officials say there are an e... Read More...

Sarai Espinoza and daughter Alexa Ordonez sit patiently as paper work is filled out by an enrollment volunteer during the Amate y Asegurate health care program screening. (USC Photo/Gus Ruelas) *Boyle Heigh... Read More...

Photo by Brizette Castellanos. Originally published on Oct. 22, 2014 In a raspy voice almost too distorted to understand, the woman on the television screen presses her fingers against an open hole in he... Read More...