Aaron Mendelson

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.

County supervisors followed L.A. city leaders in increasing the county's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. The decision will affect those who work in unincorporated areas of the county.

Data portals have sprung up across Southern California, and could expand further if bills in the California legislature pass this session. So how much do they cost?

The Los Angeles Police Department has killed 10 people so far in 2015, more people than any other agency in the nation.

Employees at L.A.'s transportation department maintained "nearly super-human work schedules" and claimed overtime at rates higher than any other department except the LAFD.