In conjunction with Small Business Saturday, the application period opened on Saturday for a program providing $584,000 in grants to small businesses and nonprofits, Los Angeles County officials ...

For the second time this month, the Los Angeles County supervisors took steps to spotlight small businesses. Two weeks ago the supervisors delayed a vote to raise the county’s minimum wage from ...

It’s an embarrassing statistic: In the small-business capital of the nation, less than one half of 1 percent of all Los Angeles County contracts and purchase orders go to small businesses.