The decision to end one's life is not just about the patient, but also his or her family and medical team. One woman and her husband's prescribing doctor tell more about their experience.

The new film 'Cake' has received a ton of critical acclaim and positive reviews. The film tells the story of one scarred and injured woman who lives her life in constant pain.

Retirement shouldn't be something that causes worry, fear or anxiety - after all it's the time in your life when you stop working!

Southern California Public Radio's Sanden Totten has this latest look at what's happening in weird science.

In this week's State of Affairs, California leads the way with paid sick leave and the fight over how to fund the University of California.

Susan Orlean's upcoming book is all about L.A.'s Central Public Library and the deliberately-set fire that destroyed 20 percent of its holdings. But what does it feel like to burn a book? To find out, she'd have to burn one herself.

When food writer Lucas Peterson reported about an elote vendor in Lincoln Heights, it became a "corn"-troversy about race, gentrification and "columbusing."

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week takes a close look at just how much the forests of the state have changed over the last century.

The Doomsday Clock measures how close we are to a global disaster brought on by nuclear war and other man-made threats. Today it was moved closed to midnight because of global climate change.