Despite recent reforms, the state and county spent $15 billion on incarceration and nearly $6 billion responding to criminal acts.

An LA Times story revealed that thousands of men and women who had been paid bonuses to re-enlist were being asked to give the money back.  Secretary of Defense Ash Carter ordered the Pentagon to suspend efforts to claw back these funds.

For decades, there was a belief about how HIV/AIDS spread to the US — that it was due to one flight attendant. But that may be wrong.

Distracted walking among middle and high school students is partly to blame

On this week's State of Affairs, what's behind GOP dead zones in LA County, voter confusion over ballot props, and Justin Timberlake's ballot selfie controversy.

If Democratic lawmakers in California regain a supermajority in the state capitol this November, what would that mean for the state?

"It was all completely arbitrary and ridiculous. People would come up with these names based on their families or their hobbies."

This weekend's 'Science Fiction Los Angeles' event explores why L.A. has been such an incubator of and inspiration for sci-fi stories.