Billy Gil

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is giving you a chance to use your Excel knowledge with a new website that shows where city tax money goes in adjustable graphs.

Following a shooting last year at Los Angeles Airport that left a TSA agent dead and three people injured, officials say LAX is ill-equipped to handle a crisis.

Newman isn’t dead.

Investigators are looking into what appears to be a human skull and a shoe found near the fire that broke out Friday in northern L.A. County.

Wildflower season is officially underway. Here is a list of five of our favorite places to see wild blooms.

An Amber Alert was issued for four missing children who were kidnapped by their biological parents. Two boys, ages 7 and 5, and twin 1-year-old girls were in the care of their grandmother in Boyle Heights when they were abducted by their parents, who have a restraining order against them.

Plus, the LAPD Lamborghini has Twitter and Instagram accounts.

This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation about the marathon, the Valley and LACMA.

If you were like us and were too lazy to get up for the L.A. Marathon on a Daylight Savings day, these selfies will make you feel like you were there. About 25,000 people took part in the marathon this morning, which ran from Dodger Stadium to near the Santa Monica Pier.

A 71-year-old woman from Palm Desert is recovering from being stung around 1,000 times by a swarm of bees. The swarm of 75,000 to 80,000 Africanized honey bees was disturbed when a Verizon employee opened an underground vault.

Following last year’s deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, the Los Angeles Marathon will see heightened security measures. Marathon runners have to pick up their own race packets and will only be allowed to bring a clear plastic bag provided to them.

Governor Jerry Brown had to speak over a group of activists today who waved signs and yelled in opposition to his administration’s fracking policies. Brown was at the second day of the California Democratic Party’s annual convention in Los Angeles to make his case for re-election after announcing his candidacy last month when he was interrupted by protesters.