What happened at Echo Park Lake this week, and over the past couple of years, should never have happened. We all know by now that with roughly 60,000 unsheltered people in Los Angeles County ...

The debate over it rages on Los Angeles City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez stands next to the fence that surrounds Echo Park Lake. He has promised to take it down.

Many people visiting Echo Park Monday said they didn't feel safe bringing children there. "Some, not all, do some drugs out an about, or take off their clothes," Mia Sabala said.

ECHO PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new fight is brewing over a fence around Echo Park Lake, controversially installed two years ago to keep out homeless encampments from the park.

A temporary chain-link fence surrounding Echo Park that's been up now for nearly two years, is said to be coming down soon. A large homeless encampment, of about 200 people, was cleared from the ...

Two years ago this weekend, Los Angeles Police cleared a large homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake, erected what was supposed to be a temporary chain link fence around the park’s borders, and shut ...

A fence surrounding Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles, which triggered protests and demonstrations, is coming down two years after it was first installed. Initially touted as a temporary barrier that ...