Metro officials hope the 14 miles of new express lanes from Downtown LA to the 605 will mirror the success of those that opened a few months ago on the 110 Freeway.
Parents saw George De La Torre Elementary as a safe place for their kids before a teacher was arrested for sexual misconduct. Attorney cries foul at LA Unified.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman will sit at the witness table when he appears before the panel as the nominee to replace Hillary Clinton. View live video of the hearing.
Up to 70 movers and shakers will discuss hiring for jobs related to the planned light rail line between Crenshaw Boulevard and Los Angeles International Airport.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Manchester rock band The Stone Roses and the newly reunited Blur are among the headliners of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
The woman who was unknowingly the face of Lennay Kekua said the man who concocted the hoax confessed and said he wanted to end the ruse many times before it unraveled.
An L.A. County gang member has been sentenced to death for the 2006 hate-crime killing of a black man. The judge said the evidence was overwhelming and the death is warranted.
Festival grounds will be accessible only by shuttle, and there are camping options for rockers who want a full woodland experience. 18 artists and counting.
Los Angeles County authorities say a woman has been charged with assault for allegedly attacking a 12-year-old girl who had shown up to fight her daughter.
Salt Lake City International Airport brought boarded planes to their gates Thursday after a Frontier flight from Denver slid on the runway in a rare freezing rain storm.
Brown addressed reform of K-12 education funding, the need for the higher education systems to hold down costs, promotion of high-speed rail and new water tunnels. View the speech.
Robert Pimentel, a four-decade veteran of the Los Angeles Unified School District, is the second teacher suspected of the sexual abuse of students in a year. He taught at George De La Torre Jr. Elementary School in Wlimington.
Today is Thursday, Jan. 24 and headlines include Wendy Greuel's perspective on religion, public transit lines to airports, and a billboard for Carmen Trutanich.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has announced officially that women will no longer be banned from front-line combat. On paper, women have been excluded since a 1994 Pentagon rule, but in practice tens of thousands have served in conflict. That fact sparked lawsuits by service women who were precluded from promotion without accredited combat experience.
Have you purchased any of these disappointing appliances and been let down by the technology? Have you seen them in use? What do you wish your appliances could do? Think outside the ice box.
A former 4th grade teacher at George de La Torre Elementary school was arrested yesterday and charged with 15 counts of "committing lewd acts and continual sexual abuse of numerous...
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut has opened a new national dialogue about guns and gun violence. In some communities people are trying to push the...
It's a landmark moment for women in the military. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday is expected to formally announce that he's lifting the ban on women in combat. The move...
Take Two's ticket to all the latest political news coming out of downtown Los Angeles. This week, KPCC's political team of Frank Stoltze and Alice Walton talk about the leading candidates...
The Lakers have lost 10 of their last 12 games and this morning, found themselves closer to last place than a playoff spot with less than half the season left to play.
Two people from Orange County recently traveled to the Syrian border to carry supplies and money to refugees. One of them has been there seven times in a year.
California Governor Jerry Brown delivered his third State of the State address since he's taken office. His speech outlined an ambitious and optimistic policy agenda for California...
Many conservatives see the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. as clear evidence that border protection is failing. They argue that before the immigration system can be reformed...
All week we've been looking into bilingual immersion programs. In her final report, KPCC's Deepa Fernandes profiles two Latino families who tried bilingual education with vastly different results.
