Aaron Mendelson

Deaths among homeless people in Orange County jumped 53 percent over the last two years, according to coroner's data.

Rifles used in a mass shooting at a Dec. 2 holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino were legal to purchase in the state of California. However both had been modified to make them illegal under the state's assault weapons ban. Here's a primer on that ban.

The number of shootings by police so far this year is up from 2014, when the district attorney counted 74 such incidents.

Southern California's Muslim community is small but diverse, spanning every county in the region and encompassing several ethnic and national backgrounds.

Several of those districts are in Southern California, and many are on track to miss their conservation targets because they didn't cut enough over the summer.

The data cover details on why police shot 375 people in L.A. County. It's the first publicly available dataset of its kind in Southern California.

More than 30 cities across Southern California are behind on their state-ordered water savings goal, and they will need to make substantial cuts to catch up.

In recent years, the city has received record numbers of complaints about graffiti from citizens—more than 120,000 in 2014, a number 2015 is on pace to top.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris debuted a new website for the state's crime data, but users will find far less information than the state actually collects.

In the first month of 2015, graffiti abatement crews cleaned away 270,000 square feet of graffiti, 46 football fields' worth of the stuff.

The move follows controversies over grenade launchers and a mine resistant vehicle the district obtained through the program, known as 1033.

Many water officials in Southern California will need to cut back more at home to help their districts meet reduction targets, a KPCC analysis has found.