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After delaying the vote for two months, the Los Angeles City Council accepted a donated four-legged robot dog from the L.A. Police Foundation. Dozens of people and one councilmember spoke out against the robot.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission took photos of people with disabilities using home safety devices like flashlights and smoke alarms — then put them in the public domain for anyone to use.

Driven largely by fentanyl, drug overdoses in California now kill more than twice as many people as car accidents, more than four times as many as homicides, and more than either diabetes or lung cancer.

For parents of teenagers, adolescence can be challenging, but to a brain scientist it's a time of breathtaking development. And it's a "window of opportunity" on the way to becoming an adult.

Federal law protects the firearms industry from many lawsuits, but Uvalde parents are putting the laws to the test by suing a gun manufacturer over the way they market their weapon.

The number of young adults going without sex was rising even before COVID-19 made dating harder and riskier.

Under his May budget plan, Newsom wants UC and CSU to get more state student housing in 2023-24, but the universities would have to borrow the money through bonds. The state would pay the interest on the bonds annually. Legislative analysts say the state may be overcommitting given far lower projected tax revenues.

Today will stay cloudy and cool, with temperatures below normal in most areas thanks to a marine layer.

A Cambodian graduation ceremony at California State University, Long Beach became a moment to honor the ancestors and help heal the still-fresh pain of genocide.

The new season of LAist Studios' WILD podcast is a fictional rom-com set in Southeast L.A. Art Laboe plays a small part in the characters' lives in the show's latest episode. Here's WILD co-host Erick Galindo's tribute to the famed disc jockey, who is credited with coining the term, "oldies but goodies."

The Los Globos nightclub was turned into a raunchy and punk space where everyone is encouraged to dress up.

Southern California growers and water districts agreed to use less water and receive federal funds in return.