Aaron Mendelson

Federal data shows first-time buyers in California increasingly rely on family for help.

The number of votes cast, some 19,000 with more still to be counted, took the city clerk's office by surprise.

The policy requires the release of footage in critical incidents within 45 days. The video released Wednesday is an edited version of a fatal incident in South L.A. It shows officers subduing a suspect who had been holding a metal pipe.

Lottery losses are felt more acutely in certain neighborhoods: KPCC/LAist reviewed store-by-store sales data from the lottery, revealing that those booming sales happen disproportionately in census tracts that are low-income and non-white.

The California Lottery is minting money. This year, revenues will soar to $6.9 billion. That should be good news for the state’s schools, the lottery's only beneficiary. Yet even as ticket sales have skyrocketed, California schools aren’t seeing much of a return on that investment

State Senator Tony Mendoza and Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, both Democrats, have lagged behind their competitors in fundraising.

The Sheriff's inspector general has ordered a review of a shooting investigation and other issues raised by KPCC's podcast "Repeat," which looked at deputies with multiple shootings.

The latest scheduled eviction of homeless people living in a large-scale encampment in Orange County comes after a dramatic week in in the county, where officials are struggling to handle a growing homeless crisis.

The suit is of great interest to Southern California's estimated 27,000 Samoans. Of the 16 U.S. territories, American Samoa is the only one whose residents aren't U.S. citizens.

"No one wants to have or host this difficult population. Who's willing to step up?"