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Los Angeles is home to the largest Iranian population outside of Iran. The killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Suleimani is generating some strong emotions here. KPPC’s Josie Huang reports from Persian Square in Westwood.

Goodwill, the Salvation Army, and others got a flood of contributions from people seeking to get under the wire before the Dec. 31 tax contribution deadline.

Finding affordable child care is often a struggle, but parents aren’t the only ones dealing with the financial burden. KPCC’s Mariana Dale talked to childcare providers about the strategies they use -- including dipping into their personal finances -- to make ends meet.

As the climate changes, the more acidic our oceans are getting, But a new study shows that mussels with certain genetic traits can survive those more acidic waters.

Taiwanese officials estimate thousands are flying from Southern California to Taiwan to vote in that country’s presidential election tomorrow.

Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his proposed state spending plan Friday. The Governor is continuing his push to improve early childhood education and wants to establish a new Department of Early Childhood Development.

TIC buyers must be willing to co-own property with strangers. And rent-controlled tenants may have been forced out of the buildings they're moving into.

As journalists come under attack, we explain why and how we do our jobs in the KPCC newsroom.

Members of several groups of homeless advocates from across Los Angeles converged on a homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake on Feb. 12 to protest the routine weekly litter collection.

As an organization we condemn systemic racism — and racism of any kind — and remain committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve. With that in mind, we say the statement “Black Lives Matter” reinforces our commitment.

Dogs, cats and rabbits sold by pet stores must come from shelters and rescues. California became the first state to require this.

Every day, hundreds of people in Los Angeles work with homeless residents to enroll in programs and services already available for help.

The Santa Monica Mountains are showing their first signs of life, but fast-growing invasive plants are giving the native species a run for their money.

By next year, the way that voters cast their ballots in person will change and the county says it'll only help boost voter turnout.

Witnesses say shots were fired after a fight broke out in Gable House Bowl late Friday night. Police have made no arrests or named any suspects so far.

Instead of picking council members to represent the whole city, in what's known as at-large elections, cities switched to distinct district elections.

The new 75-unit complex comes with a community center, a reflection walk, and a pet spa. It aims to decrease the 12% of homeless residents that are veterans.

Sandra Oh is the second Asian woman to win a Golden Globe for best lead actress in a TV drama series. But Asian representation is still lacking in Hollywood.

An advocate for arts education explains what he hopes newly inaugurated Gov. Gavin Newsom will do when it comes to the future of arts in California schools.

California community college administrators say the state's high incarceration rate underlines how important it is to help the formerly incarcerated earn a degree.

Legal pot. Universal health care. More money for roads and housing. KPCC reporters reflect on the biggest issues they'll be covering in the new year.

Metro's short-term bike rentals is now available in Pasadena, Venice and the Port of L.A. but ridership is still half as high as in cities like San Francisco.

The new year means the state will once again cover things like root canals and partial dentures for adults on Medi-Cal. The legislature limited coverage during the Great Recession.

This month Finley completes her 60th year at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, making her the longest serving woman at NASA.

While noting "a new day in law enforcement," the department says it's not planning to deploy additional officers to enforce new cannabis rules.

Get ready, Beyhive. The queen bee will headline the second night of the mega music festival, after pulling out of last year's extravaganza.

A flurry of fraud cases following this fall's wine country fires prompted the FBI to create a special task force. Officials in SoCal are bracing for the same.

While more arts ed is being offered to more students than many assumed, there's still work to be done to make sure access to that instruction is equitable.

It's been a hazy shade of winter in Southern California. Thursday is the 11th straight day that you can't burn wood in your fireplace.

This flu season has been worse than usual, and the influx of sickies is testing the capacity of clinics and hospitals.

Angelenos were briefly treated with a New Year's surprise Sunday morning after someone modified the Hollywood sign to read "Hollyweed." Here's a look back at other times the sign's been changed.

Salud Carbajal, replacing the retiring Lois Capps in the 24th Congressional District, says Marine Corps boot camp wasn't as tough as freshman orientation.

The county's first sobering center opens Monday on Skid Row. It will primarily serve homeless, intoxicated people who might otherwise end up in jail or an emergency room.

The project is designed to provide a faster connection for riders of the Metro Silver Line rapid bus and Foothill Transit lines that serve the San Gabriel Valley.

Police say Officer Heather Monroe, 30, died following a traffic collision at an intersection in Simi Valley shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday.

Spectators were treated to 44 colorful floats and 22 marching bands. The undisputed viral hit of the parade was a float with dogs surfing.

Doctors say you're generally contagious from about one day before symptoms begin through the second or third day of your illness.

Starting Wednesday afternoon, L.A. and Ventura counties will receive up to half an inch of rain. Things will be kicked up a notch with heavier rainfall this weekend.

Metro said it will be running some trains with just two cars during rush hour so that its crews can repair its emergency power system.

Kate Kenealy will serve temporarily pending confirmation of Congressman Xavier Becerra as California attorney general.

While driving the freeway during El Niño's downpour, it might be difficult to recall what your driving instructor told you to do. Tip 1: Don't slam on the brakes.

The quake hit at 6:42 a.m. and though the epicenter is about 85 miles from Los Angeles, residents of various areas responded on Twitter that they felt the temblor.

Your news feeds are becoming filled with El Niño photos. From slow motion to GIFs, here are six unique ways to document rain in Los Angeles.

Backers of dozens of initiatives are trying to qualify them for the November ballot. One political analyst says the interest is the highest he's seen in 20 years.

Brown declared a state of emergency over the natural gas leak that has driven thousands from their homes in the Porter Ranch neighborhood over the past two months.

L.A.'s Civil Grand Jury found a severe lack of shelter space to accommodate the large homeless population. But after days of storms, much shelter space remains vacant.

Flash flood warnings were in effect for Los Angeles and Ventura counties and heavy rains were forecast for Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.

Students at Huntington Park Elementary School were inspired to create an orchestra. But the school didn't have instruments. Here's how they got them.

As residents scramble to find temporary housing in nearby communities, they are considering rental homes listed for more than $7,000 per month.

Two years ago, images of his drooling, mange-ridden face shocked biologists and fans. Now, he's looking much better. Still, will he ever find a mate?

Happy New Year! This weekend, we're hitting the streets of Pasadena, reminiscing about our favorite cartoon cats and taking a trip to Tanaka Farm.

The parade's theme, "Inspiring Stories," was meant to highlight the life of Louis Zamperini, who was named Grand Marshall but passed away earlier this year. See the full list of float winners.

Three of four lanes will be closed in both directions over two-mile sections near Camp Pendleton every night next week as crews resume work on a pavement rehabilitation project.

In 1974, lawmakers decided tap water in the United States should be safe to drink. Until then, we didn’t have a national standard for drinking water. Those reports your local provider gives you about water quality? They didn’t exist.

The new year's most popular exercise options are polar opposites: no-frills gyms and high-end training studios give consumers a range of possibilities.

An attorney for the Ezell Ford family says witnesses dispute the LAPD's account of the fatal shooting of Ford. But none will speak - even to the inspector general.

Gas prices dropped since last summer, but just a day into 2015, they’re ticking up slightly. The explanation may lie in a new law taking effect this year.

The probe seeks to determine whether the largest body in the Asteroid Belt has subterranean oceans of liquid water.

A one-year-old baby boy was found stabbed to death in a Ventura home on Friday morning. His father has been arrested in connection with the crime.

The Beachwood Canyon entrance to a Griffith Park trail leading to a Hollywood Sign view is re-opening to pedestrians on Monday. The gate was originally closed in March.

Significant consumer protections come with the requirement that nearly every American must have health insurance.

California's new anti-swatting law that requires convicted pranksters to reimburse cities for the fake emergencies goes into effect January 1, 2014.

A gay marriage, longtime Dodgers announcer Vin Scully and Meatball the bear all featured in the 125th annual Rose Parade.

Avery passed away Tuesday night in Los Angeles County from complications from open heart surgery, according to his agency.

Many people celebrated the wedding of Danny LeClair and Aubrey Loots, who tied the knot atop a float on Wednesday, but others said they boycotted the Rose Parade because of it.

Jordan Sartorio, 42, had been living with his ex-wife, Miraflora, and they were trying to work on their relationship, according to police.

State budget cuts have slowed efforts to map active faults in California to a crawl.

An invasive snail introduced during a makeover of Echo Park Lake now threatens the health of the lake, including the signature lotus plants

A body was found in a car on its side Thursday morning in the Tujunga Wash off the northbound Hollywood Freeway in the San Fernando Valley.

An 800 gallon sewage spill has shut down a portion of Huntington Harbour in Huntington Beach, including Davenport and Humboldt beaches.

One year it's Mickey Mouse, the next it's a supreme court justice; the quirks of the Rose Parade grand marshal selection process.

Two new California laws allow some undocumented immigrants to get a driver’s license and to apply for financial aid at public universities.

The 147 high school age musicians in Banda El Salvador traveled four days by bus from their Central American homes to take part in today’s Rose Parade.

Unemployed workers like William Hutton of Venice, Calif., said they hope to find a job in 2013. Hutton, 55, has been unemployed for more than three years.

While the NHL is stuck in a lock-out, hockey fans are off 'dating' other sports. The corporate ticket buyer will be tough to get back at the same price.

Two men died from New Year’s Eve shootings in Los Angeles County, police said. The separate shootings occurred in Lakewood and Hawthorne.

The new year got off to a good start on Southern California’s highways, with fewer traffic deaths in the days leading up to the first day of 2013.

Conducting and presenting oral histories reveals to UC Irvine students some ways that Vietnamese culture adapted when it arrived in America.

Your income tax rate might not be going up, but your Social Security payroll tax rate is, and it'll probably show in your next paycheck.

A deal was done, but businesses that depend on defense contracts are still dangling off the fiscal cliff. Congress put off a sequestration decision for two months.

The 24-year-old Iraq War veteran suspected of gunning down a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park over the weekend was a Riverside County native. Search crews found the body of Benjamin Colton Barnes in the park yesterday, one day after the fatal shooting of one of the park's rangers. Authorities say Barnes died from exposure.

Deep in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains there is said to lurk a creature right out of the pages of gothic horror master H.P. Lovecraft. Native Americans call him "Tahquist" and they say he’s a primordial beast who steals the souls of humans. The creature comes alive in a new exhibit at Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts.

The state-appointed California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group says the Legislature should not authorize $2.7 billion in bonds to start building a new $98.5-billion high-speed rail project to build a bullet train from San Diego to San Francisco because the project isn't financially feasible.

The mother of Harry Burkhart — the suspect in more than 50 Los Angeles arson fires — told a federal judge Tuesday that her son is mentally ill and suggested he might have been taken by the Nazis.

Los Angeles AIDS activists Tuesday announced they’re launching an effort to qualify a ballot initiative for this Nov. 2012 that would require condom use in adult films shot in L.A. County.

Elections for Los Angeles’ 90 neighborhood councils have moved closer to the neighborhood level. The LA City Council’s voted today to transfer authority for those elections from the city clerk to the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment.

We studied Twitter on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning to find a sampling of the endless chatter and interesting takes on the oh-so-important or totally unimportant (depending on who your talk to) Iowa caucus. Did you see any you found particularly hilarious, refreshing, spot-on, or eye-opening? Let us know in the comments. Send a link, too.

Three homeless men have been stabbed to death in their sleep in Orange County since Dec. 20, in separate yet similar incidents. The transient men were stabbed multiple times as they slept alone.

It's a bird, it's a plane – it's Shervin Lalezary! He's the L.A. County sheriff's deputy who caught Harry Burkhart, who's suspected of setting more than 50 fires in four days. The 30-year-old native of Iran gets paid a dollar a year moonlighting as a reserve officer. But the newfangled neighborhood hero deals with real estate law during the day. How is he qualified to wield a gun and drive a patrol car?

A Los Angeles high school was on lockdown for more than an hour after a prank call reported three armed men on campus, officials said.