It publishes its papers on Fridays and has won fourteen Los Angeles Press Club awards.

[1][4][5][6] The newspaper received much attention in 2012 when it published a story alleging Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez of corruption.

Ron Beilke, a city council member in Pico Rivera, said that Hews tended to ally with certain figures and people he likes.

The former editor of the paper, who quit in 2013, Jerry Bernstein, explained that Hews would falsify and exaggerate facts about people that he did not like, without any substantiation.

[1] Hews faced a lawsuit for libel in 2017, after reporting that the director of the Central Basin Water board, Leticia Vasquez, and Montebello councilmember, Vanessa Delgado, tried to extort money from a real estate firm the year before.